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...wasn’t having sex. I could audition for Beauty and the Geek, but I was neither beautiful enough to be a beauty nor geeky enough to be a geek. So much for national fame; I couldn’t even make it onto FM’s Fifteen Hottest Freshmen list. As unique as I made myself seem in my college admissions essay, I was way too normal to be famous. And the competition was steep. Tons of students were striving for the same campus-wide fame I was, from UC presidential candidates to world record holders...
...This casual injustice has directly affected the ROTC program itself. Banned from promoting or recruiting on the Harvard campus, the program’s participation rate in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines ROTC has dropped drastically. Whereas ten or fifteen years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for 80 students to participate in the program, today there are fewer than...
...recruit foster and adoptive parents who reflect the ethnic make-up of children in the system, even though the law says they must, so racial disparities have persisted within the family services system. Black children are adopted less frequently and more slowly than kids of any other race. Fifteen percent of U.S. children are black, but they account for nearly a third of children in foster care and a third of those awaiting adoption. White children are five times as likely as to be adopted than children from any minority group, and are adopted out of foster care an average...
...reducing carbon emissions and increasing fuel economy without compromising performance—and reducing the weight of their cars. Ford has begun researching advanced technologies such as biofuel, hybrid engines, and hydrogen fuel cells in their cars and plans to begin implementing them in the next fifteen years. Cischke emphasized that none of the various solutions that are being researched at the moment will be a panacea.“There’s a lot we’re working on, but there is no silver bullet,” Cischke said. “We?...
...your evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.” For Venkatesan to point fingers at individuals using supposedly confidential student feedback is not only morally reprehensible, it also hurts her own cause by creating the perception that she is simply capitalizing on her fifteen minutes of fame...