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...affirmative action guidelines? Why do we spend $40,000 on afunctional "kiosks" when we do not have a Third World Center? Is it surprising that a University which has no female deans or department heads insists that the study of women from a women's perspective is not a "valid discipline...
There is not a single valid reason why Harvard should not follow the examples of Brown, Yale, Princeton and others and show a full-fledged commitment to a Third World center. Students at these other schools are enthusiastic in their support for the centers, variously describing them as indispensable, crucial, and valuable. Princeton sank $250,000 into its center to build an annex, and its center enjoys a wealth of programs...
Though Roglieri's complaint is valid up to a point, Americans now have far more intimate medical knowledge of their leaders than have citizens of other countries, or than Americans had in the past. When Grover Cleveland was secretly operated on for cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy...
...judgments about student performance and "success" in a vacuum, focusing mostly on standardized test scores and examining them with no attention to social, economic and historical factors, breaking students down instead into groups like "women," "Blacks," and "Jews." It irresponsibly reduces people to statistics; that anyone could consider it valid is cause for fear...
...included in his draft of the report--which has not been adopted as University policy or endorsed by Harvard officials, but has been distributed to admissions officers for comment. The report largely deals with test scores. It makes the unproven and often-assailed assumption that standardized test scores are valid predicters of students' performance in college, and it goes on to evaluate how accurately the tests predict performance for different groups...