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When So finally addresses the issue of SAT test bias, he concludes, "The solution is not to edit out exam material that most minority students are unfamiliar with, the solution is to familiarize them." So misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators...
...solution is not to edit out exam material that most minority students are unfamiliar with; the solution is to familiarize them. Austin W. So '96 The writer was the first student member elected to the New York City
...also drove employees slightly crazy with his mania for details. Chao recalls having to re-edit a promotional spot for the series Cops 15 times before Diller was satisfied. His combative style was stimulating to some, debilitating to others. "It's the yell-in-your-face school of management," says an ex-staffer. But for Diller, passionate argument is not just a matter of temperament; it is a management philosophy. "Arguing out of conviction and belief is positive to the creative process," he says. "Years ago I started to worry, How do you keep your instincts clean...
...learning and teaching institution. We teach our reporters how to write and investigate. We teach our executives how to edit, manage and lead. We instill in our reporters a belief in accuracy and fairness above all else. This year, to train our contributing reporters more effectively, we brought Nieman fellows--professional journalists invited to Harvard for a year of study--to deliver lectures on everything from newspaper ethics to investigative reporting to community responsibility. But because The Crimson is a learning experience, we will sometimes make mistakes...
According to some third-year editors, Schulmansaid that allowing a Black woman to edit anarticle written by Assistant Professor of LawCharles J. Ogletree Jr., who is Black, "would be adisaster...