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...have continued this summer to reevaluate and fine-tune the entire operation. As part of that effort, current Harvard undergraduates also have been called into service to travel around the country talking to high Schoolers in inner city school districts and other previously undiscovered areas. These students try to dispel the myth that Harvard is a snooty school restricted to bluebloods, says George Sanchez, an admissions intern, who helps oversee minority recruiting...
...said President Reagan last week as he launched a new campaign to dispel the hard-line image of his Administration on the thorny, arcane and all-important issue of strategic nuclear arms control. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Reagan announced changes in U.S. nuclear bargaining positions that offered, as he put it, "the prospect of new progress" in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which reconvened last week in Geneva. Said he: "These actions reflect a bipartisan consensus on arms control, and new flexibility in the negotiations-steps to be viewed seriously by the Soviets and all others...
Finley's speech did little to dispel this image, and at times it proved downright embarassing. Speaking of life in the Houses before they were coeducational, the classicist declared that today, by comparison...
...that time, female undergraduates indicated overwhelmingly that they wanted to keep RUS. The organization survived and remains an important symbol and resource for many women at Harvard. Under Einaudi's leadership, RUS began to take a more active role in promoting women's issues and did much to dispel the two negative images which had plagued the group for some years. As Einaudi puts it, "We were neither radical lesbians nor preppy tea-party girls. We were serious about real issues...
...under Ross' direction, may well do much to dispel the myth that the avant-garde in art is nowhere to be found in Boston. "Reputations still have to be made or unmade in New York," says Sellars, "but the ICA is moving in very exciting directions. I saw a lot there that meant a great deal to me, and it's a great environment in which to work. And that's the important thing for an artist. The important thing for an artist is working in the media available, getting it done...