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...Quakers present a tough challenge, bringing a 3-0 record into tomorrow's race. Penn swiped the San Diego Crew Classic three weeks ago--outlasting Washington, Navy, Yale, Princeton and Wisconsin--and has since topped Princeton and Columbia in the Childs Cup and beat Yale and Columbia in the Black-well...
Established 13 years ago by Congress, the scholarship goes to one student from every state and U.S. territory, and up to 39 at-large candidates, the foundation said. The fund was created in memory of the 33rd president and his stands on education and public service...
...atonished to hear someone demonize Jackson in this manner several years ago. Since then I have understood differing degrees of this association to be held by quite a few American Jews. Jackson called Jews "Hymies" (he apologized), met with Yassir Arafat, critized Jewish landlords and did not explicitly repudiate the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan (although he did repudiate Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements). Therefore, these people argue, Jackson can be compared to Hitler...
...first glance, the new set of Harvard admissions figures released two weeks ago seem to give cause for most advocates of diversity to cheer. In a year when the number of applicants overall declined 11 percent, the proportion of minorites admitted jumped slightly (about 1.5 percent) to 32.3 percent. Meanwhile, two groups--Hispanics and Asian-Americans--reached all-time high representation within the admitted Class of 1993 at 6.9 and 15.3 percent respectively, although levels for Black and Native American students remained virtually unchanged at 9.6 and .5 percent each...
Black representation at Harvard, for example, has yet to surpass significantly a level reached 20 years ago--the first year Harvard began recruiting efforts. Yet the representation of Black students here still falls below the 12.4 percent representation in the population at large. Hispanic students too come to Harvard in fewer numbers than their 7.5 percent nationwide representation...