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About 20 per cent of the Class of '83 is composed of minority students. Asian-American students will represent about 5 per cent of the incoming freshmen, blacks about 9 per cent, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos and Hispanic students slightly more than 5 per cent and Native Americans slightly less than 1 per cent, Fitzsimmons said...
...CLASS REUNION, Rona Jaffe's account of the lives of four Radcliffe grads from the '50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl...
...Class Reunion is not the worst of the recent books on Harvard. Unlike Enrique Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, Jaffe has no axe to grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more smoothly than The Mem Hall Murders. In the end Harvard fares pretty well, because she uses it only for background: dropping names of buildings and alumni, reminiscing about sneaking a feel in an Eliot House room or necking on the steps of Briggs Hall. The Harvard name may sell...
...male-female sex ratio in the Class of '83 will rise to 1.89:1 because of an unexpectedly high number of men accepting admission, an admissions official said yesterday...
William R. Fitzsimmons, director of admissions, said 76 per cent of the men accepted to the Class of '83 will be attending, compared to 73 per cent of the women. The sex ratio for the Class...