Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Cubbies down by a few runs to the Astros, Chicago slugger Andre Dawson stepped up to the plate. Instead of telling the audience that Dawson could very well hit a home run with the wind blowing out of Wrigley Field, Caray had to proclaim something like, "Come on, Andre, hit one out so we can get back into this ballgame...
...Dawson said one explanation for the trend towards upper-income families is that there are fewer social pressures on a student from that environment. "It's a lot easier to find the suburban upper-middle-class minority student," he explained...
Coming to Harvard is "less of a reach" for middle-income students, Dawson added, because they--unlike students from poorer families--are more likely to be informed that colleges will give need-based scholarships...
Nonetheless, she and Dawson said that Harvard should take the lead in minority hiring. "Harvard has a valuable role to play in training minorities for the future," he said...
...Having been away from Harvard, I look back at my years here fondly," said Dawson...