Effort to Make Harvard University Tuition-Free Fails

A conservative software developer’s campaign to shake up the membership of Harvard’s Board of Overseers — and push to make tuition free for undergraduates — has failed, university officials said Monday.  A slate of petition candidates led by Ron Unz, known in Massachusetts for leading a 2002 ballot initiative that severely limited bilingual education, had vied for election to the largely powerless body. Unz had rounded up four other candidates, including Ralph Nader, on a platform that also questioned Harvard’s use of race in admissions.