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...causal relationship between birth to a Harvard graduate and increased odds of admission to Harvard is tenuous at best. You are correct in referring to children of Harvard alumni as "the fortuitously-born." Such children were truly fortunate to be born to parents who, as indicated by their attendance to Harvard, value education and intellectual pursuits...
...Crimson staff would like to use the Harvard admissions office as a means by which to correct the wrongs of society--discrimination against minority groups and socio-economic disparities--then perhaps Harvard should adopt a more comprehensive policy of affirmative action admissions...
Your article of February 2 about the poster listing community meals, food pantries and homeless shelters in Cambridge contained several errors. While we welcome thoughtful and constructive criticism about this project, we want it to be based on correct information. Although we consulted numerous students and community agencies about the poster prior to and during its production, your reporter interviewed only students who had not known about the project. Consequently, they were not aware of how we had approached...
...only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if the cost is manageable. A more idealistic version advocated by Seth Bonder, president of a Michigan think tank called Vector Research, would encourage the Pentagon to invest in R. and D. but actually build new weapons only if they would correct an impending imbalance with the Soviet Union; it should pass up those that would give the U.S. a destabilizing military advantage...
Given Whitehead's position as chair of the Overseers' Executive Committee--which sets the Board's agenda--it seemed as if Tutu's assessment was correct, and that divestment would again be a major issue for the Board...