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Angered by the death of a policeman in a refugee hijacking in early August, Castro threatened to open the ports and unleash the population. "Castro appeared on national television and said military police would no longer patrol the waterfront," explained Eugenia Ventacourt, 44, a former executive secretary from Havana. Like hundreds of others, she crept down to the coast to see whether police were still patrolling. Before dawn on Sunday she and 10 others slipped away from a beach east of Havana. They were spotted by a Cuban coastal patrol boat 28 miles from the island, far beyond the coastal...
Stonecypher's complaint addressed "all Black minority students that applied to Harvard receiving special treatment." He singled out his high school classmate Eugenia Kay Harris, a Black female, who was accepted to Harvard. Stonecypher, a sophomore at Vanderbilt, was rejected by Harvard in the spring...
Grades are not objective because academic expectations and requirements vary from school to school, and even from class to class within a school. That may be why Eugenia Kay Harris was valedictorian if Mark Stonecypher's claims that the took more difficult courses are true. An `A' in underwater basketweaving may have the same effect on grade point average as an `A' in calculus, but they say different things about a person's academic ability. Similarly a `B' at one school (or from one teacher) may represent the same accomplishment as an `A' at another...
Mark Stonecypher is a white male and was salutatorian of John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Ala. His classmate Eugenia Kay Harris is a Black female and was valedictorian...
...Mark was more studious, but Eugenia was more well-rounded," says Nelson. "I spoke to Mark a week ago...He said he was surprised that a lot of people at Vanderbilt were in his situa- tion--they all had good grades but didn't getinto Ivy League schools...