Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concentrate its efforts in developing a broader admissions policy, such as the one employed by Harvard and many other colleges. By incorporating a number of varied factors--which include grades, socioeconomic background, extracurricular interests and race--these admissions programs recognize individual achievement and potential rather than simple racial or ethnic classifications...
...fear that what the Crimson staff meant to say, if they had been forthright, is that students' ties to evangelical Christianity frightens them in a way that, say, students' involvement with ethnic or progressive groups does not. The Crimson displays a severe double standard; a good number of the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates have ties to a wide variety of student groups, but the Crimson staff does not cite those ties as hindrances to those candidates' effectiveness. It seems that among liberals, bias against religion may be one of the last acceptable prejudices. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH...
Proposals offered by candidates struck similar themes, including advising reform, increased funding for student groups, the creation of ethnic studies programs and the construction of a student center...
...task force on University Health Services (UHS) and was one of two council members responsible for bringing the campus "fly-by" lunches, which serve more than 700 students daily. Redmond, a Crimson editor, is a two-year council veteran, has been an outspoken proponent of Faculty diversity and ethnic studies and for the council itself...
...Redmond, we also admire the progressive ideas of John A. Burton '01, the current treasurer, and Scott A. Resnick '01, a Crimson editor. The pair seem to have reasonable ideas about what is wrong with the current council--a lack of attention to issues such as Ad Board reform, ethnic studies and Faculty diversity--yet are less convincing when it comes to solutions. Still, students can take advantage of the council's hare proportional system of voting and rank Burton and Resnick second...