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...Coming to Harvard as a place of extreme privilege and entitlement was hard to reconcile,” says Mackinnon, a Brooklyn native. Inspired by the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) living wage sit-in the spring before her matriculation, Mackinnon was eager to get involved early...
...City public school system gets worse by the year. Of the 396 schools in New York State that were labeled as failing, 328 were in New York City. The result is that desirable high schools, such as Beacon High School in Manhattan and Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, were forced to accept a hundred more students each this year than originally desired—leading to increased overcrowding in even the “smaller” public schools...
Even inner-city students who do make it to college often find themselves at a disadvantage. Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn is working to deal with this problem. It created a new freshman orientation for black male students, taught by the college president and his assistant. The goal of the program is to encourage students to stay in school and finish college—a major concern, as only 35 percent of black men who enrolled in NCAA Division I colleges in 1996 graduated in six years, compared with 59 percent of white men and 46 percent of Hispanic...
...making negative money on gigs (if you account for gas), the members of the band have more typical, though perhaps less exciting day jobs. Snyder works for D.E. Shaw and Company in Midtown in New York City and Warren works at the Public Defenders Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. While Snyder said that Stroll works at a Starbucks, the drummer denied the fact, offering one of his seemingly typical outrageous and obviously false responses that he trains pandas to shoot eucalyptus plants which emit gamma radiation...
Like a tree in Brooklyn, a love for diving can flourish in the least likely places. Less-than-stellar local waters could not deter a coterie of Harvard students from spreading the gospel of SCUBA on the banks of the Charles. Two Cabot House sophomores won official ecognition for a new SCUBA club last month, bringing the number of SCUBA-related activities at Harvard to a whopping two. Enthusiasts can also get their SCUBA on with weekly classes offered at the Malkin Athletic Center...