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...have data on Jewish students at Harvard.BEYOND TEST SCORESBlack student groups from the College and graduate schools wrote in a letter to The Crimson in October 1980 that the report relied more on numbers than on truth. “Since when do raw scores devoid of personal context gauge admission?” the groups wrote. The Crimson received criticism from both minority student groups and the administration for sensationalizing the report. “I would urge members of the Harvard community not to place any weight on isolated quotations from an unofficial draft of an outline...
...poor unfortunates that were hauled up there, but also their colleagues,” says Ells, who is also a Crimson photo editor. “We had no experience with anything like a McCarthy hearing or investigation, so we weren’t able to put it in context.”For most students, the hearings remained a distant reality.“I remember noting among those people whom I respected a tremor of apprehension,” Ells says. The lack of real danger made the hearings seem less threatening.“It wasn?...
...beginning of the book? The answer is: the kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story and her own in the context of his secret. This way she can parallel her life as a lesbian who healthfully revealed her inclination shortly before her father's death, only to discover his inner life as a corrupted version...
...being an independent. Erin M. Griffin Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S. I appreciated Sullivan's stating the truth about Christianism and Christianists - very appropriate terms - and the similarities Christianists have with Islamists. Let me add, however, that no matter which beliefs people adhere to, instead of blindly following out-of-context phrases from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly out-of-date books, I would pray for humanity that these people would finally turn their brains on. Certainly no faith in this world requires anybody to be a mindless, raving conqueror in the name of religion - of all things! Cornelia Graham...
...Cambridge. It was an event that prompted one Crimson reader to remark, in a letter to the editor, that “it seems apparent that due to the temperamental orientation of many of the opponents of the war, it is impossible to have any meaningful dialogue in a context which involves a non-select audience...