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...These students must be invited to join communities where others share their goals and their experiences. We want to hold on to the students’ hearts and minds, to enable them to thrive rather than merely survive in this wonderful community. Other universities—including University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Boston College—recognize the challenges these students encounter. Rather than leaving the students to sink or swim, they provide a host of options similar to the support system that we recommend Harvard put in place. Students who go through these...
Rebecca J. Joseph ’85, a former Crimson Executive Arts Editor, is a former inner-city English teacher and current education professor at California State University, Los Angeles, where she trains urban teachers, supports first-generation college goers, and provides workshops on preparing students for college. Chris C. Goodman ’87 is a professor of law at Pepperdine University, where she mentors students at all academic stages and participates in high school outreach programs in east and south Los Angeles...
...Award-winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first year roommates found the combination of her California background and musical interest both delightful and bizarre. “If you are a bluegrass fiddle player, why are you from San Diego?” Monica A. Angle ’84 recalls thinking. Yet when Brown moved from her self-described “surfer chick?...
...later stances, Marglin hardly emerged from Harvard a radical—at graduation he was a neoclassical economist, concerned with the optimization of limited resources and, as such, apolitical.As an undergraduate, Marglin was not a cafe-dwelling, revolutionary intellectual; rather, he was a Jewish public school kid from California who worried about looking like and fitting in with East Coast private school kids.In those days, the schools of thought that ushered in 60s radicalism and Marglin’s own left-ward turn—feminism, the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements, and the sexual revolution—were...
Cyberspies are also targeting regular citizens. News headlines regularly tell of hackers ransacking computer networks for Social Security numbers, banking information and other data that could be used for potential identity theft. One recent example: officials at the University of California, Berkeley, said in May that hackers stole the Social Security numbers of 97,000 students, alumni and others during a six-month breach of the school's computer system. Other computer vandals have caused physical harm. A forum run by the Epilepsy Foundation had to be shut down last year after online intruders, in perhaps the nastiest prank...