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...Buckley's proposal of this amendment, and his refusal to back down in the face of pressure from educational heavyweights, in commendable. But to put the law into effect now, without adequate preparation, would be a mistake...
HARVARD'S REACTION TO the Buckley amendment, which gives students access to their confidential files, seems strangely disproportionate to the impact of the legislation...
...intent of Sen. James L. Buckley's amendment to the omnibus Education Act is clear: to give students a chance to inspect their files and to challenge any incorrect or damaging information they may contain. One would assume such incidents rarely happen and Harvard's arguments have seldom mentioned the central purpose of the law. What appears to be more pressing to members of the Faculty and the administration is that students will also have access to their recommendations; that this access will lead to a lack of candor by professors; and that this lack of candor, in turn, will...
This is not to say that the Buckley amendment is without fault, particularly in regard to its unintended possible side effects. As currently worded, for example, the law gives students automatic access to their parents' confidential statements--something better left legislated by the family than the state...
...does not give students who might feel that a confidential recommendation would carry greater weight in admissions and job procedures the option of waiving access to their files. Buckley has indicated that these issues will be dealt with in greater depth in further amendments to be prepared by his office. Most seriously, the law provides no clear-cut instructions for its implementation--a large gap has been left between the time of the law's enactment and the time when the U.S. Office of Education is to issue guidelines...