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...school such as Harvard that's supposedto be a bastion of knowledge to be segregated theway it is between the river and the Quad is a bad,bad thing," says Lowell House resident Alexis A.Topjian '96. "The number of African-Americans in ahouse [like Lowell] of 400 people is maybe four orfive...
...Harvard, Rand's ideas are rarely if ever mentioned in the classroom. Is Harvard indeed the liberal arts school that it professes to be? Does it teach its students the vast and diverse richness of ideas? Or has Harvard become the bastion of a dogmatic school of thought where a thinker has to conform in order to penetrate the thick walls of the ivory tower...
...forces who take her as an embodiment of the American dream. Here we have a girl who overcame an abusive past to excel in high school through traditional values of hard work, integrity, and maybe a little bit of homicide. She finally seemed to have succeeded, until Harvard, that bastion of snobbery, rescinded its offer rather then risk the bad publicity of having a matricidal killer within its ivory tower...
...court said the state must either implement an alternative program to accommodate all women seeking a military education oradmit Faulkner to The Citadel's military training programby August.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the ruling signals the end of an era because The Citadel is the last government-sponsored "bastion of maleness" in military education. Faulkner has been attending Citadel classes under a federal judge's order but was banned from military training while the order was being appealed...
After all, the University is supposed to be a bastion of objectivity and rationality...Right? FM found that amidst the seekers of pure Veritas are those who are anything but rational. Whether it's determining where to live or what to do, students show a propensity for numerology and a distaste for the wrong side of a ladder. Self-described skeptics abound, buRTLÄen they knock on wood come room lottery time...