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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollis says the small number of Blacks in Harvard also stressed the organization's importance as a means of taking concerted political steps to insure that they will be represented in the University. "When you have such a ridiculous minority without access to the corridors of power and not involved with hiring and firing, you are constrained in your choice of tactics. If there were Black people in power, these issues would not have to be resolved in the public domain...
Thesis and paper writers at Harvard who have immediate access to pc's or word processors have an advantage over those who do not. Computer science students who can now roll out of bed to do their homework will have an easier time of it than those who have to trudge over to the Science Center and then brave the daunting lines and terminal foul-ups that show no sign of ceasing. These aren't the problems of some hypothetical future--they affect students now. And while Harvard may not be able to hand out pc's to everyone...
Computer experts have for some time now raised fears about a computer literacy gap in which children with access to the machines early on in their lives would have a leg up on their peers who don't. It isn't stretching the imagination too much to envision something of a similar situation happening right here at Harvard...
...indeed personal computers are to be the wave of Harvard's future, the University must arrange to factor their purchase its financial aid equations. Even more immediately, officials should be thinking of how to ease the current computing crunch, and in particular how to make sure all students have access to cheap and efficient word processing, currently the most glaring example of computer "deprivation...
...local calling, one must deal with New England Telephone. They offer metropolitan service, which takes in 44 exchanges in the Boston area at $16.75 a month for a touch-tone dial tone and $16.15 a month for a rotary-set dial tone. For contiguous service--access to Cambridge and all the cities that border on Cambridge--studdents pay $11.20 for touch-tone at d $10.60 for rotary...