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...truth, while groups are obviously free to endorse the candidates of their choice—be it for their particular political persuasion or unique cultural background??it would be a shame if students relied on endorsements alone to make their voting decision. One isolated characteristic says little about how a candidate will represent constituents once elected to the council. Rather, we hope endorsements lead students to take an active interest in learning about what candidates propose to do as members of the council and as advocates for the campus at large...
...when it came to his own life, the Yale-educated candidate was up-front about his privileged background??mentioning that he grew up in a two-parent home, never having faced the economic challenges he vowed to address...
...twists approach the absurdity of the suggestion that a Harvard professor on a tenure track would ever see the inside of an Ec 10 section—much less saddle students in that class with an assignment as onerous as a term paper. Thomas-Graham’s business background??she earned an MBA from Harvard and worked on Wall Street before joining CNBC—heavily influences her writing, and not always positively. In Orange Crushed, she indulges in digressions on the relative merits of the Gini coefficient as a measure of inequality and the application...
...greater challenge is to work on the pipeline and assure that everyone—regardless of their background??gets a chance to prepare themselves for success,” he said...
...ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia’s complex cultural background?? stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...