Word: whether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Education announces that it is investigating whether Harvard admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Americans. The review seeks to determine if the University violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, ethnicity or religious creed...
...There was one time when Harvard was full ofhumor. Now they're frozen icicles," says Vellucci."Something happened--I don't know if it was thepollution in the air or whether it was the changein the atmosphere--but something has happened toHarvard faculty and students. They don't smileanymore. They're like frozen popsicles...
...Whether or not the school's review is a reaction to external or internal criticism--or both--the debate it has sparked over the extent to which quantitative approaches should continue to dominate the school's curriculum promises to reshape the school under Putnam...
...These courses aren't designed to teach you about the five most important books ever written," says Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core Program. "They are to get you to look and think critically about whatever it is, whether it is a piece of art, a book, a poem, a philosophical question...
Wilson: That's certainly a significantfactor. I'm not familiar enough with the Harvardscene to say whether that's the dominant factor orone of 20 factors. The pool of women who are verywell-trained who want to be at a particularinstitution is very small. One has to make anextraordinary effort to recruit them, but everyonein the country is trying to recruit them...