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Until my senior year, I had no conception of what a Harvard graduation involved. I could envision only receiving my long-awaited diploma in an atmosphere of jubilant feeling toward my school and fellow classmates. The spirit of the tradition becomes clouded when I consider the difficulty that many of my peers and their families face in funding a Harvard graduation. After all, graduating from this college should be a blessing, not a burden...
...racism, they have consistently demonstrated that if they are not racist, they are at least shockingly insensitive to racial problems. The Review's confrontation with Professor Cole was a carefully orchestrated attack on affirmative action at Dartmouth. The Review claimed that affirmative action denigrates the value of a Dartmouth diploma, and that it is tantamount to racism. But this argument denies the existence of institutionally imposed barriers to minority achievement. It plays on latent racist sentiment, and it displays a profound insensitivity to the problems of minorities...
That learning has already come for Richard Coombes, a lanky Missourian. Despite much self-doubt, Coombes has made it through the school with a 91.4 average. As instructors pump his hand, the ex-store clerk clutches a diploma in tractor-trailer driving and grins broadly. "I kept telling myself, 'You can do it. You can do it.' " He sallies into the Texas night, now a king of the road with a new measure of self-esteem: "I can't think of anything that hasn't been hauled in a truck," he says...
Most educators welcome a closer eye on accreditation and a toughening of the Government's lax rules on student loans. But many point out that Bennett's proposal could cut off job-training opportunities for the nation's legions of high school dropouts. "A diploma is nice, but you shouldn't turn these other kids away from becoming auto mechanics or secretaries," says Mark Williams, who investigates trade-school abuses for New York State. Reputable organizations like New York's Technical Career Institutes have successfully trained a large number of dropouts. Says California's superintendent of public instruction, William Honig...
...lamentable truth is that while at Harvard I have learned nothing except a seemingly useless and unconnected series of facts that can be best described as trivia. And, despite the fact that someday you, too, will have a Harvard diploma, the truth is the same in your case...