Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fentrice D. Driskell '01 stressed that her cause celebre--the "Visions Project" and Harvard Census 2000--would clarify what, exactly, students wanted from their college experience...
Driskell hopes to continue the Harvard Census 2000 project she started as a council member, which she says will allow the council to "assess where Harvard...
...candidates for president, Driskell is the most qualified. Although her specific proposals are hazy at best, she has rightly emphasized that the council's first priority should be reestablishing strong connections to the student body that it purports to represent. She has advocated a "Harvard Census 2000" and placing council feedback cards in the dining halls--measures that are useful as a first step, but will accomplish little without further action...
UNMARRIED WITH CHILDREN A new U.S. Census Bureau study indicates that marriage is becoming increasingly irrelevant to parenthood. In the first half of the decade, 53% of firstborns of women ages 15 to 29 were conceived--and 41% were born--out of wedlock. That's triple the figure for premarital conceptions and five times that for premarital births since the early 1930s. The Census study found that only 23% of today's young pregnant women decided to marry before the birth of their first child, in contrast to 54% 60 years...
...census is only one of the many forms that query people about race. Between college applications and standardized tests, by the time students arrive at Harvard, they have been asked to specify a race on more than a few occasions...