Word: adoptionism
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According to Liston, his platform includes several proposals intended to bolster Harvard's school spirit, including the adoption of a mascot at Harvard athletic events.
Contrary to the staff position, we believe Harvard's adoption of the "common" application is a step forward. Rather than demeaning Harvard's venerable traditions, the common application will make the College more accessible to students from less privileged backgrounds.
The adoption of the new application sounds the death knell for the Harvard application, but the old form lives on in the memories of administrators, professors and students who remember filling it out.
Steven Kirsh, a past president of the American Association of Adoption Attorneys who has placed seven biracial babies in homes overseas in the past four years, calculates that there are 80 U.S. families waiting for every available white infant, five for every biracial baby, less than one for every black...
Others dispute any shortage of willing recipients among African Americans. "I have more families coming to my agency than I can possibly handle," says Zena Oglesby, executive director of the Institute for Black Parenting in Englewood, California. "In my 17 years in adoption, I've never seen a shortage of...