Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's dishonest waiver policy compounds the offense. The Admissions Office routinely sends applicants a form permitting them to cede the right to view their admissions file once they reach Harvard. Despite the implicit pressure on them, only half the applicants waive their rights. Yet all students are then denied access to their admission files...
Harvard routinely sends applicants a form which allows them to give up the right to view their letters of recommendation. But William R. Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions, said last week that whether or not applicants sign the waiver, their chances of seeing their recommendations are the same: all students are denied access...
...grant an entry visa to an Italian Communist official invited to lecture at Harvard and other American universities is a flagrant violation of academic freedom. The department's invocation of a Joe McCarthy era law forbidding foreign communists entry into the United States unless they are granted an ineligibility waiver, as justification for not giving Giorgio Napolitano a visa, is an example of the purest form of bureaucratic nonsense. Congess should certainly repeal the law in question, since denying communists entry into this country on the grounds that they represent a danger to the national interest does nothing to insure...
Sonnenfeldt explained that a law, passed during the height of the McCarthy period, forbids members of Communist Parties anywhere from entering the United States, unless the State Department recommends a waiver of ineligibility to the Justice Department. The law is apparently never applied to representatives of Communist Parties in power...
Students will receive a waiver form in the mail before school starts, giving them the option of refusing the University's insurance...