Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every level of decision-making. However, we are also aware that at Harvard this ideal is not always reached. It has taken many long years of struggle with the Harvard administration to obtain a University policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that defends our basic rights as members of the University community...
...light of our own difficulties getting the administration to consider our concerns, we feel that any attempt to foster dialogue between the administration and the student body is in our basic interest. Harvard University is often validly criticized for treating its students as second-class citizens. For this reason, if none other, the Harvard Corporation should open its meetings to allow students to express widely-held concerns on issues clearly within the jurisdiction of the Corporation. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gay and Lesbian Students Association urges the Corporation to do so quickly. Matthew J. Bank '88 President H-R GLSA
...climbing the 1964 record charts. Last week brought more bad news for the second largest U.S. wire service, which emerged from bankruptcy proceedings last June when it was bought by Mexican Newspaper Publisher Mario Vazquez Rana. The New York Times revealed that on Dec. 31 it would cancel its basic contract with U.P.I. (The Times still wants to use the wire's photo service.) Estimated cost of the dropped service: close to $1 million a year. The paper apparently aims to bolster its New York Times News Service, one of U.P.I.'s competitors...
Government sponsored reading programs such as Adult Basic Education while well-intentioned, currently have dropout rates as high as 40 percent, he said...
...Those kids were as bright as the kids I grew up with. It was purely an accident of birth that they were so far behind." Despite the fact that most of his fourth grade students were lacking in basic skills, Kozol began teaching them the poetry of Langston Hughes and Robert Frost...