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With the review of Harvard completed, focus nowshifts to Berkeley's law school and UCLA'sundergraduate programs, where investigations arestill under way.
The three deans cited Harvard's need-blind admissions policy--established in 1961 under then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28--and more vigorous geographic and minority recruitment as the major reasons for the stronger student body.
Instead, the Department accepted Harvard's contention that a policy of giving preferential "tips" to alumni children and recruited athletes--groups that include relatively few Asian Americans--had caused the discrepancy. Such preferential treatment is acceptable under the law, according to Paul H. Wood, a spokesperson for the Department.
Jack W. Morse, deputy chief of Harvard Police, said an investigation is under way, although he said no specific detective has been assigned to the case yet.
With Stanford's lesson in mind, Rosovsky saidyesterday that the Faculty cannot afford to dependupon a future fund drive to pay for currentexpenses--as had been the policy under former Deanof the Faculty A. Michael Spence.