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...would seem to us reasonable that students would pretty quickly withdraw from us [if they were accepted elsewhere under Early Decision],” he said. “That might give us more confidence to admit more people in April...
Last spring, many faculty members on the Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid supported letting students who wanted to break early decision commitments come to Harvard. But after substantial criticism in the media, Harvard issued a statement this summer saying it expected students who had such commitments to withdraw, and Fitzsimmons said earlier this fall that any student who sought to renege on an early pact would not be allowed to attend...
...decency survives at Harvard as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement of regret demonstrates. Summers’ statement affirms that homosexual students at Harvard will not suffer from a hierarchy that privileges uniformity and the stifling of individual identity. Expulsion devastated the lives of those forced to withdraw in 1920. The result of discrimination was not a better or more decent university, but the shame and suicide of many of those involved. Pappin’s lack of sympathy for the real and human consequences of his “moral decency” is not just indecent...
...least that’s a world away from Harvard Yard. Anyone hear of the Secret Court of 1920? Nor had I until last month, when Fifteen Minutes published the records of an 82 year-old investigation into homosexuality at Harvard that led to eight students being forced to withdraw from the College. These extraordinary proceedings show clearly how bigotry has been as much a problem in Cambridge as in other parts of the country. The weeds of prejudice have grown not only in distant cotton fields but also up the sides of our own ivory tower...
...planned to restart a nuclear power plant closed down under the 1994 agreement because it was producing weapons-grade plutonium. Although they said the move was necessitated by the cutoff of fuel supplies, the North Koreans' implied threat was underscored when they demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency withdraw monitoring equipment from the plant used to help determine if a power plant is engaged simply in energy production or producing extra plutonium for weapons...