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...article in yesterday's New York Times said that only 395,000 people toured the building in the last year, a 34-per-cent-drop from...
...STUDY ON RACE RELATIONS at Harvard College, released in May 1980, found that about 20 per cent of all undergraduates believed in the intellectual inferiority of minority students. Yet the study did not simply evince prejudice, because some minorities also expected poorer academic performance by non-whites. The racist attitude appeared even though most polled students had had little ability to measure intelligence; cultural assimilation, not education, accounted for their views. Harvard students reflected an American conviction that other races are inherently less intelligent than the Caucasian...
Take New York City. The already swarming Rikers Island "correctional facility," 99 per cent full to capacity a year ago, is now crowded more than 10 per cent above its formal limits. Yet Mayor Edward Koch continues to blast "soft judges" who refuse to lock up all offenders. Meanwhile, Koch, who will romp to re-election this year, has cut back the budgets of the few departments designed to ease inmates back into society--Probation, Parole, and Mental Health. Sadly, Americans everywhere--obsessed by only political issues of the self, like interest rates--have taken no notice of the horror...
...June with tenants who wanted him to repeal rent increases of up to 22 per cent scheduled to go into effect in July. As a result of the meeting, Bok asked Archibald Cox, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, to prepare a report on whether the "rents set by Harvard Real Estate (HRE) in Botanic Gardens were appropriate," Cox said yesterday...
...candidates emphasized the need to involve citizens in the school committee's programs to keep people informed about the school system and to maintain adequate levels of funding. "Seventy per cent of the people in Cambridge do not have children in the system. We need wide community support. And we have a selling job to do--to tell the community we're doing a good job," Berman said...