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College officials have argued that the reason for randomizing the house populations is to try to break down the traditional stereotypes of house residents: Mather as the jock house, Pforzheimer as the pre-med house, Eliot as the elitist house and Adams as the gay house...
...selectivity, based on acceptance rate (12 percent), yield (75 percent), average or midpoint SAT score (1370-1560 for the 25th to 75th percentile) and high school class standing of entering first-years. Thank goodness. At least we can still say we're the most selective (and by extension, most elitist) school in the country. That's a relief...
Broadway, almost by definition, is an elitist place. It's located in a single area in a single city; the tickets are pricey, and the shows often appeal to glitzy, tuxedo-wearing values from a seemingly bygone era. But two of Broadway's biggest recent hits, the rock opera Rent and the tap-dance epic Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, in some respects stand in opposition to all that. Rent is about fighting landlords and hiv; Noise/Funk is about struggling with the Man, racist cab drivers and whitewashed history. Still, despite the populist appeal of these shows...
...black man's brow, I don't think he had ever seen a black man." The only child of an Italian-immigrant father who became a professor of Romance languages at Brooklyn College and of an Italian-American mother who taught public school, Scalia remains determinedly anti-elitist--he dines in a downtown pizza joint and keeps his name listed in the phone book. He can be a forceful advocate for those working-class white males he described in one gender-based case as affirmative action's "losers...unknown, unaffluent, unorganized...
...Tosteson stands out and may well be one of the best deans HMS has ever had," says Kitz, who has worked at HMS for 27 years. "What's marvelous about Dan Tosteson is that he is truly an academic elitist. He's what Harvard is all about...