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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...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Blacks Admitted Early Reach Record Number | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latino Life at Harvard | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

They voice complaints with the shuttle system that range from overcrowding at peak hours to a dearth of service at other times...

Author: By Javier V. Garcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE HARVARD SHUTTLE SERVICE? | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

Besides the unnecessarily restrictive policies of the Core, student options are also limited by a general dearth of departmental courses for any one semester...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: The Core of the Problem | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Decency Into Hell: JOHN WHITLEY | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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