Word: unjustness
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...Crimson correctly states that "When white legacies occupy a disproportionate share of spaces in the first-year class, fewer spaces can be allotted to Blacks, Asian-Americans and Hispanics." The Harvard legacy admissions policy would truly be unjust if the disproportionate admission of legacies was due solely to the applicants' legacy status. It would be equally unjust if Blacks, Asian-Americans and Hispanics occupied a proportional share of the Class of 1993 solely on the basis of their minority status...
...returned to Harvard determined to help expand opportunities for women and minorities here, I appreciate McDonald's values and goals. But I cannot endorse her criticism of Wilson. The charge that Wilson has failed to grasp adequately the concerns of undergraduates is as surprising as it is unjust...
WHAT would you call an agency that reserved one-fifth of the highest stations in life for people of privileged birth? You might call it archaic and aristocratic. You would probably call it unjust. You would certainly call it "un-American...
...silence of other Harvard students, especially the campus Left, is equally surprising. Perhaps Harvard students are content to let their own children benefit from an unjust policy to the detriment of others. More likely, students, faculty and administrators take legacy policy as a given, a part of Harvard tradition as unshakeable as the statue in front of University Hall...
...time to question that tradition. As Harvard enters its multi-billion dollar fundraising drive, will it continue to offer spaces in the first-year class to the children of high bidders? Or will it remove a lingering vestige of its discriminatory past by renouncing an undeniably unjust policy...