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...students admitted early this year, 45 or 15.9 percent are Black. This record number marks a significant increase from last year's 28, and may be part of an attempt to address the troubling dearth of Black students in the Harvard community...
...dearth of Latino faculty is one important reason, some Hispanic students say, that they look wistfully at the California schools, many of which have Chicano studies majors...
They voice complaints with the shuttle system that range from overcrowding at peak hours to a dearth of service at other times...
Besides the unnecessarily restrictive policies of the Core, student options are also limited by a general dearth of departmental courses for any one semester...
...emergency, which included a state investigation and tightened federal oversight. Discontent among the 5,186 inmates could be summed up in a word: hopelessness. Prisoners, the vast majority of them lifers in a state where a life term means life, blamed their despair on tough parole laws and a dearth of gubernatorial pardons. At risk was a reprise of the chaos that in the early '70s earned Angola the dubious distinction of being the nation's bloodiest prison...