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...decision was motivated by bias. While she is not making an “overall claim of racism,” she told The Globe last week in an interview moderated by her attorney, “I do believe I am being singled out...I’m black and I’m poor and I’m from New York and I walk a certain way and I keep my clothes a certain way,” she said. “It’s something that labels me as different from everyone else...
...succeed in everything that you do.” Carpio also possesses a gift for navigating difficult topics in the classroom, said Christina A. Knight, a graduate student who served as a teaching fellow for Carpio’s class African and African American Studies 112: “Black Humor.” “She manages to keep the richness of humor as a topic of study, but also manages to keep the humor going as something fun,” Knight said. Knight added that Carpio was extremely careful to respect the complex dynamics of race...
...Additionally, if appointed Dean, Wilkins would be the first black administrator to hold the position. Currently, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds is the only African-American leading a school at the University...
...Whether or not some of the more intangible elements of House life—including House spirit and culture—would be compromised in the process remains to be seen, says incoming Winthrop House Master Ronald S. Sullivan, who was selected in February as the first black faculty member to hold the post...
...caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in economics in 1997 for his work on the Black-Scholes model, ubiquitously used by traders to price options and determine expected volatility.But he has also gained notoriety in financial circles for his membership on the board of directors of Long-Term Capital Management, whose collapse threatened to imperil the global economy in 1998, prompting a government-orchestrated intervention...