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...detection site that compares each submission with billions of Web pages, tens of thousands of journals and periodicals and a growing archive of some 40 million student papers. More than 7,000 educational institutions use the system, including Harvard and Oxford. But while Turnitin lets faculty level the playing field, many students--even the straight arrows--see its use as a breach of trust...
...Walk through Dillon Field House, Harvard University’s central athletics building across the Charles River, and you’ll see history hanging on the walls. Decades of team photographs line the corridors, testaments to the fact that the Ivy League was an athletic conference long before it became the most powerful brand name in higher education...
...have a tremendous offering of sports that are not historically favorable to people of color, perhaps because of access,” Roby says. “You’re already working off a pool that is really limited. How many kids of color are drawn to play field hockey, fencing, swimming and diving, lacrosse, tennis, and golf...
...photographs in Dillon Field House are their silent reminders that things are easier said than done...
...recent years, however, that playing field has been increasingly leveled. Financial aid in the Ivy League has risen to the point where families who contribute the least receive the equivalent of a full ride. At Harvard, families making below $60,000 do not have to pay any tuition at all, and similar programs have arisen at Yale and Princeton...