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Numerous departmental courses that meet the core's goals of providing breadth and tools for analysis fail to count for Core credit solely because they are aimed at concentrators: they have prerequisites or expect familiarity with material, spend less time explaining why one wants to study a subject and more time studying it, or demand more than could be expected of students seeing a subject for the first time...

Author: By James T.L. Grimmelmann, | Title: Toward a More Flexible Core | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...should be treated the same way," "I really don't care what race a person is." And on the rare occasions that blacks and whites really do engage in conversation about the most persistent American problem, they end up talking past one another rather than to one another. Without fail, most well-meaning whites will cite the great strides made by the civil rights movement; they will then wonder what more these rather ungrateful blacks want, and they will ardently deny ever having owned slaves. Equally often, many blacks will demand full economic and political opportunity, constructive affirmative action programs...

Author: By Iason Q. Purnell, | Title: Running on Empty | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

...fail to make things clear...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

However, I would like to correct two glaring errors in the article that fail to confer credit where it is due. First, though Zack Sung did manage to create an incredible set, the artist who Tiwari accidentally assumed was Sung was in fact the Artistic Designer, Sam T. Pfister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baal Deserved Far More Credit | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

...presidency itself is not the American immigrant's final frontier. It is simply the right to seek that office and then, possibly, to fail in that attempt, which stands out as the holy grail in the immigrant's quest for equal status. Until the time when that right is granted, the antiquarian presidential qualification will continue to gnaw and prod at the effort to end immigrants' second-class-citizen status...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Constitutional Contradiction | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

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