Word: beene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"There's been ample support where you don't feel you're at a disadvantage because you are an ethnic minority," he says. "Yes, I hear where students don't get adequate support, but that's not because they are an ethnic minority."
Many may have been amused by the sight of hapless initiates butchering that modern-day ballad by the Backstreet Boys, but fewer were pleased when they brought their chickens into the classroom. How did professors feel when the first 15 minutes of their class were taken up by the vocal...
Perhaps Harvard hasn't done anything because so far the final clubs have been busy shooting themselves in the foot. The Owl Club, for instance, posted two disasters for its season: one when they missed their "booze cruise" due to scheduling mishaps and then, more seriously, when graduate members closed...
The clubs, as antiquated bastions of old boy obnoxiousness, should either be forced to abandon their sexism--which officially keeps them from being recognized by the University--or close their doors altogether. This is the message that Harvard should have been sending all along.
Avery has been criticized recently for hand picking students to sit on the committee that will advise the Trust, a body that will dole out nearly $20,000 next year to women-focused groups.