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Veblen, who is white, said it was impractical to try to pick out Hispanics by facebook pictures...
...compiling their final project last spring for Statistics 100: "Introduction to Quantitative Methods," Nienke C. Grossman '99 and Mark F. Veblen '99 examined a sample of facebook pictures and assigned students to one of the three racial categories: "white, African-American or Asian/South Asian/Indian/Near Eastern...
Student leaders not only dispute the project's premise that it is possible to determine the race of an individual by looking at a facebook picture but also criticize the first-years' failure to include Hispanics and Native Americans as racial categories...
...When you look through a facebook and assign them to one race, you are classifying them in a way that may not be fair," said Fernandez, who is of Indian descent...
...most surprising and distressing shirt of my first year came with a shuttle bus schedule and facebook attached. This gray T-shirt sported a Currier House shield. I wore this one as a badge of my powerlessness in the housing lottery. No matter how we rationalized it, the T-shirt reminded us that the Tower of Power would be moving to the Quad...