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...petition was first organized by a group of 10 undergraduates led by Marc R. Talusan '97 in the days following the department's general exam, which the students found "biased and obsolete," he said...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: English May Alter Size of Committee | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Lecturer in English Richard C. Marius echoed Engell's enthusiasm for change in the department, going so far as to state that changing the general exam is "a good idea...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: English May Alter Size of Committee | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Talusan originally voiced his complaints during the department's general exam. Instead of answering the assigned questions, he wrote a long essay chronicling the essay's flaws...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: English May Alter Size of Committee | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...evidence that Gardiner had in fact been skating the night of his disappearance. Jaffe said that he had seen Gardiner in silhouette with skates slung across his neck, walking at the edge of the river. Although Jaffe was admittedly fatigued, relaxing near the river after a rigorous Chemistry 5 exam and a few beers at Cronins, he insisted that his chronological diary set the time of his sighting...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: The Gloomy Tale Of a Harvard Man's Icy Demise | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...school applicants by Linda Wightman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro illustrates both the challenge of recruiting minorities and the payoff. She found that of the 3,485 blacks accepted by law schools in 1991, just 687 would have been admitted only on the basis of board exams and grades. Yet these same minority students had graduation and bar-exam pass rates similar to whites'--and they had an incalculable value to the black community, as both professionals and role models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK TO THE FUTURE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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