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...House list announcements of rallies or protests–are unsure. Some say that Harvard is experiencing a period of disengagement, whereas others point to SLAM, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, Harvard College Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club, and ethnic and cultural groups as examples of the range of activism present on campus...
Terry said the ties minority representatives have to student ethnic groups on campus can positively impact the effectiveness of the UC, referencing his own experience planning Harvard’s 2005 Unite Against AIDS Summit...
...warranted. What will motivate our generation of students to public service is, I suspect, not inspiration but embarrassment. We look around and see a society in which most things work fairly well. Scientific and technological innovations improve the length and quality of our lives. Women, as well as ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities have more opportunities than ever. Crime and teen pregnancy are at or near historic lows. The military fights valiantly and enjoys the backing of the entire nation. It is just the government that is not holding up its end of the bargain, and those of us interested...
...mixed-race slums to tell the backstory of the kids who killed Her Ladyship. The hero of this tale is an 11-year-old boy named Joel, who has a retarded brother, an oversexed sister and a face covered by tea-cake-size splotches--"a physical expression of the ethnic and racial battle" raging in his blood. George, a U.S. writer whose British-style mysteries were becoming a bit formulaic, took a gamble with this one, and it pays off brilliantly...
...reported that Middlebury College had decided to “give students who identify themselves as gay in the admissions process an “attribute,” a flag that gives the applicant a leg-up in the same way that being a recruited athlete, legacy, or ethnic minority would.There are three compelling arguments for admissions policies that give a boost to applicants of underrepresented minorities. First, African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and other minorities often face challenges in their lives that have hindered them from achieving at the level of applicants who have not faced such adversity...