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...open letter to the deans last November, Bok charged them with "assess[ing] whether any of [their fundraising] practices impinge or would appear to impinge upon the academic independence of Harvard." So far, both Bok and officials at the faculties say the academic independence of Harvard has not been tarnished by the University's extensive network of fundraisers...
Spencer S. Hsu's article entitled "Asian-American Admissions: Subtle Discrimination Reflected in Admissions" (February 11, 1988) is an emotional outburst that is based upon ill-founded premises and which proposes an illogical solution. Hsu concludes that because admission rates for Asian-Americans are less than that of their white peers, Harvard is guilty of racial discrimination. Although he admits Harvard has no quota system, Hsu claims that Harvard's standard for admission places the "average" Asian-American applicant at a disadvantage, and thus, indirectly practices racial discrimination. Hsu demands that Harvard eliminate this difference in acceptance rates; if this...
...speech by a Contra representative: "No free speech for Fascists." What we have here is a milder version of the that did serious damage to America's colleges and universities in the heyday of Senator Joseph McCarthy. A new McCarthyism of the left will have the same chilling effect upon freedom of expression, and hence upon the quality of instruction in Harvard-Radcliffe College, as the old McCarthyism...
...mediator of the U.N.--sponsored peace talks, Diego Cordovez, said today in Pakistan that the next, and possibly final, round of talks will begin March 2 in Geneva. He said the timing of a Soviet pullout, which would be overseen by United Nations military observers, has virtually been agreed upon...
...Japanese. His career was built mostly at the venerable House of Patou, whose line of perfumes (Joy, Moment Supreme) is among the best known in the world. After four years of experiments -- Lacroix never tires of saying haute couture must be a "laboratory of ideas" -- he burst upon the fashion world in 1985 with his Spanish collection. It was earthy, sensual, funny and, above all, fresh. It exuded a feeling that wonderful clothes ought to push their way out of the confines of couture. The crowd in the gilded ballroom of the Pavillon Gabriel cheered and pelted the young master...