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...Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Stanford, and Yale have also moved to divest from Sudan...
Harvard’s graduation rate for black students rose to 95 percent this year—a 2 percent jump—as the College leapfrogged Amherst to lead the nation and remain over 50 percentage points above the national mean. In an article in its Winter 2005/2006 edition, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) reported that while nationally black students graduate at a “dismally low 42 percent,” the rate is highest at the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Amherst and Princeton University ranked second and third, and only...
Last season’s road woes reappeared for the Harvard men’s lacrosse team, which fell, 12-7, to No. 7 Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon in Amherst, Mass. Last spring’s squad won just one game outside of Jordan Field, but the team sees this loss as hardly a pattern, given last weekend’s victory over Stony Brook in New York and the fact that the Minutemen had not fallen at home since March 2004. “It’s a tough place to win on the road...
...colleges—gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan-Anne Arbor, Cornell, Bucknell, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Southern California. These schools in turn will commit a composite $20.5 million of their own money to the program. The foundation said its ultimate goal is to have the success of the eight colleges act as a model for other selective schools to increase their enrollment...
...Grigg made short work (18 minutes) of another Bulldog, No. 2 seed Miranda Ranieri, to punch her ticket to a bout with Lorentzen in Sunday’s final. And it made for a final with little appeal to anyone outside the small Harvard contingent in Amherst for the weekend—which was fine with both of them. “It was really exciting—maybe even more exciting—to have a teammate in the final,” Lorentzen said. Lorentzen took a 6-1 lead in the first game and held...