Word: processions
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this review OCR first sought to determine whether Asian American were admitted to Harvard at a significantly lower rate than whites. If true, we would then seek to explain why the disparity existed, and whether any explanations, or the admissions process itself, indicated discrimination against Asian Americans, in violation of Title VI. Included in our review was an examination of the alleged quota issue, and also the general treatment of Asian Americans in the admissions process...
...that the Asian American ethnic reader played an important role, not only in reviewing applicant files, but in sharing useful information about Asian American applicants with other readers. They claimed that she generally heightened staff awareness of Asian American issues which could help Asian American applicants in the admission process...
Observing the discussion on Harvard's presidential search process, it seems remarkably one-sided. In the interests of informed judgment, I propose to present some reasons for not allowing students to sit on the search committee...
...order to inform the search committee of our concerns in the selection process, I propose that the Undergraduate Council hold an open forum on the topic. After this it should publish a report highlighting the views of the student body on the search committee. This informs the committee of student concerns and at the same time allows it to exercise its judgment as it is uniquely qualified...
...Congress as entirely useless, voters might consider some of its more notable achievements. During their three-week wrangle over the federal budget, the lawmakers exposed a decade's worth of economic gospel as falsehoods while inventing a new set of myths to replace them. They transformed the budget-making process, usually about as gripping as watching weeds grow, into a demolition derby. They invited the middle class to divorce its interests from those of the rich and its sympathies from those of the poor. And they reinforced the suspicion that in a crisis, the first instinct of elected representatives...