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...River” that Bok co-wrote with former Princeton University president William G. Bowen, Bok presents some factors that could be responsible for the supposed decline in expected academic performance.The book suggests that pre-college influences such as the rigor of a student’s educational background and his or her family and socioeconomic situation can explain the disparity in performance between races.“In general, black students are more likely than white students to come from educational backgrounds that will not adequately prepare them for the challenges of college,” Bok and Bowen...
...Sexual harassment at that point was a fairly new issue to be dealt with on campuses, and she wrote a lot about that,” fellow Crimson editor Susan K. Brown ’81 says. “I came from a middle-class, public school background, and Harvard was still a pretty preppy place,” Faludi says. “Then when I stumbled into The Crimson, I [met] Gay Seidman, who was the first woman to be president, and she was irreverent and sort of outrageous and radical, and it seemed to me that...
...letter addressed to “Kremlin on the Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background investigations for future civil servants, and “character and fitness” committees waiting to vet budding lawyers to make sure that domestic communists, fellow travelers, and “pinkos” could not sap the vitals of America by teaching fifth-grade algebra or becoming licensed to practice estate planning...
...logo is a silhouette of someone charging with a flag, and "the whole military theme of the site is very on purpose." Moulitsas spent part of his childhood in El Salvador during the country's civil war and was an Army artilleryman in Germany for three years, a background that, he says, makes him comfortable with throwing verbal bombs as well. "I'm not The Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas...
...disregarding these predictions, Armstrong was left to pursue his doctorate at Harvard, where the physics department already knew his background and the circumstances of the lost fellowship...