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...post-modern design incorporates historical details from other Harvard buildings, most notably H.H. Richardson's Austin and Sever Halls. The building is expected to be completed in December...
...Austin W. So has a lot to learn. Just because he is ready to meld into some mold that others created for him does not mean that everyone has to do so. Since the SATs are culturally biased and he insists that "African American and Latino students [should] know what those things are [dividends, shareholders, checkmate, and chess]," he should also support the idea of integrating their cultural ideas in the test, and insist that everyone else learn them, too. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all familiar with the insignificant aspects of every culture that only...
Living in slums, seeing people killed every day, having to live clustered in an atmosphere that breeds resentment, hostility and hopelessness with no better outlook on life than death, is the idea that's perpetuated. Austin W. So should try living in Harlem as an African American for a decade, and he may come to understand that rising out of the ghetto and overcoming a system that is doing everything it can to keep you down and "out of it" is a difficult thing to do. Try working on living conditions and equality of quality within educational systems, Austin...
...Austin W. So's letter to the editor in the May 21 Crimson misses the point of SAT biases in general and, even worse, demonstrates the lack of critical skepticism characteristic of those who have been suckered into believing the myth of the "American Dream...
...Austin's answer to the question "Why are Latino and African American students, on average, below average?" is that the communities they live in do not respect the ideal of education, unlike their Jewish and Asian American counterparts. Why would they not respect education? Is it education per se or the educational systems that they perceive cannot serve them? Why do adolescent Latino and African American students have so little confidence in the education they receive? Is it because they are not good enough as individuals and as a group to succeed in schools, or is it because they perceive...