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...college applications to boost their chances of admission. Last year, former NAHC President Erica A. Scott ’06 told The Crimson of cases when students who were not raised in a Native American community or did not self-identify as Native American checked the Native American box on their applications anyway. One such student admitted to NAHC recruiters that she is “basically white”—after she had enrolled in the College. Most of the NAHC have joined the facebook.com group “Students Against Ethnic Fraud: ‘Checking...
...from reviewing films because their “sensibilities” don’t match up with those of the film-going public? Rice’s first explanation—that studios don’t screen films if they believe the reviews might hurt their opening box office—seems far more likely. But it’s troubling that Rice tries to champion anti-intellectual animosity toward critics by suggesting that they are out-of-touch with average moviegoers. Of course, film critics have their biases. Indeed, certain movie genres, namely horror and comedy...
...just this huge box from the Boston Red Sox,” he said. “I didn’t know anybody from the Boston...
...box: a jacket, a shirt, a hat, a DVD of the team’s championship season, a baseball, and the last part—the best part—a letter. Lucchino, a man whom Cosgriff had never met, had himself survived cancer against the odds. Twice—in the mid-80’s with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, for which he received a bone marrow transplant, and in the 90’s for prostate cancer—Lucchino had experienced the twin hells of cancer and chemo...
Lucchino’s long letter to Cosgriff, in which he described his own battles and offered hope, put the Harvard junior in unpredictably happy straits. His invitation to watch a Red Sox game in the owner’s box, since fulfilled—“the only way to watch a game at Fenway,” Cosgriff said with a smile—made it great to think about life after cancer...