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...great surprise of many that Monro decided in 1967 to leave the comfort of the dean’s office in favor of the dilapidated classrooms of Miles College outside Birmingham, Ala. He became the director of freshman studies at the historically black college, developing a first-year curriculum and teaching students who lacked basic knowledge that would have been taken for granted at Harvard...
...some who posted to the open-list thought that the selection of first-year women for cost-free admission constituted a “fetishization” or “prostitution” of the college’s youngest women...
Andrea Neuhaus-Follini ’04 argued that the marketing choice was exploitative of first-year women, who she said are more vulnerable than older women...
Bryan Choi ’03, who joined the open list specifically in order to jump in on the debate, disagreed that the intent and the implication of the pricing decision objectified first-year women...
...There he joined a growing Methodist church that “encouraged a simple faith in the inspiration and inherence of the Bible,” he explains in an 1992 autobiographical essay entitled “Revolution Through Restoration.” A few years later, while a first-year student at the University of Florida in Gainesville, McKean became a member of the 14th Street Church of Christ at the invitation of a Sigma Chi fraternity brother. Soon active in the church’s campus ministry, he was baptized that spring...