Word: statements
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What utter nonsense, what Orwellian doubletalk is the statement of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 that Harvard's policy of giving special consideration to legacy students helps ensure need-blind admissions! Many legacy students are admitted only because of their legacy status--due, says Fitzsimmons, at least in part to the deep pockets of these students' families...
...brief statement of purpose in the front of the book explains, the original edition of the work contained "numerous documents" which student activists "liberated" from University Hall during their April, 1969 takeover. The new edition was obviously undertaken with a vastly different spirit. How Harvard Rules contains almost no new information. No secret documents. No juicy scandals...
Immediately following the address, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, issued a statement praising Bush's goals but saying "the President is continuing the misguided policy of the Reagan Administration of reducing education funds. Education needs less lip service from the White House and more resources...
...Williams (D-Mont.), chair of the House Post-secondary Education Committee, said in a statement that because more than two-thirds of the increase in Pell Grants will go to cover these shortfalls, very little funding will be used for new grants...
...being integrated into the curriculum. And they add that the lack of faculty members is simply a product of the field's newness, and of a tenure system that prizes a lifetime of work rather than a future of potential. Women's studies, they conclude, is an outmoded political statement--the goal should be its dissolution, not its strengthening...