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...After accomplishing the major goals stated at the onset of his tenure--including a wildly successful $2.6 billion capital campaign--Rudenstine has chosen to step down at an opportune time. The endowment has grown, the chronic budget deficits of many departments have disappeared, and Harvard Yard has seen a number of renovations, first-year residences to Annenberg Hall and the Barker Center. Although the capital campaign was at the center of his tenure, Rudenstine will also be remembered for his artful negotiation of the Radcliffe merger and his nurturing of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...Harvard Fiction Workshop (HFW), for instance, has the same goals as Harvard's creative writing classes, but seeks to address the limited number of spaces available in those classes...
...anyone who's attempted to do so knows, getting into one of the English department-run creative writing classes is often difficult due to the high number of applicants," says Jason F. C. Clarke '01, the new president of the organization. "The goal of the HFW is to provide an alternative to students wishing to work on their writing...
...There's no way to calculate the hours [we spend deciding]," Fitzsimmons says. "It's an infinite number...
...Supreme Court, in its famed Bakke v. California decision, cited Harvard's system as a model for private institutions to follow. Since the '70s, the number of minority admits has steadily risen. Tests have become secondary, in part because educational experts concluded that they were far less objective than once thought; they are often biased in favor of the wealthy...