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...wake of the bust, students went on strike, the governance of the College was radically reformed, and the campus ROTC chapter was abolished. Perhaps for reasons of prudence, perhaps for reasons of principle, and probably for reasons of both, the Faculty voted 255-81 to support a resolution condemning the Vietnam war on October...
Readers of Beyond the Ivory Tower will find that chapter four, "Access to the University and Racial Inequality," functions as an effective rebuttal to the Klitgaard report, although it is never mentioned by name. Bok questions the merits of the assumptions underlying meritocracy, contending that there exist "reasons for preferring minority applicants quite apart from a desire to stone for past discrimination." The rationale for preferential admissions policy, gives a large pool of qualified applicants, entails the contributions minority students can make in later life, the value of increasing racial understanding among students at a college level, and the reaping...
...CHAPTER 10, entitled "Taking Political Positions," sketches most clearly Bok's ethical distinctions. Introducing the controversial conception of neutrality, Bok states that "there is a difference between the obligations of someone who has pushed an innocent child into the river and the responsibilities of the spectators who line the shore. By taking some positive action that inflicts harm on others, we incur duties that do not fall on the mere bystander [his emphasis]." The implication of this analogy is that Harvard has no complicity in apartheid by virtue of its stock portfolio. "Granted, universities have not caused apartheid in South...
Tanzer, president of an economic consulting firm states that he has "been devoted to trying to unproved the position of minorities in this country and the Third World in general. "While an undergraduate, he was treasurer of the Harvard Society for Minority Rights (the University's chapter of the NAACP...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team entered another chapter to the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde saga that it calls the 1982 season. Saturday afternoon, the laxmen eked out a 12-11 victory over tenth-ranked Adelphi at Garden City High School on Long Island in the featured event of the school's Lacrosse...