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While some Black students attribute the decrease in political awareness to a general trend of apathy, most feel there is a substantive change in the nature of Black students coming to Cambridge today. An Q. Fitzgerald '84, a BSA member who also serves as a minority student recruiter, says earlier Black student leaders in the 1970s brought with them "a political perspective that is 180 degrees different than the perspective of a lot of Black students coming in now" Jackson agrees, saying that Black Harvard students today are more a part of the mainstream than their predecessors were and react...
...improve the number of qualified students applying from diverse backgrounds and you can improve on the number of students admitted." Fitzgerald said, but Harvard's main problem remains getting those qualified admitted students to enroll...
Although student recruiters here have increased their efforts at contacting Black students who apply to Harvard. Ari M. Fitzgerald '84, co-coordinator for Black recruiting, said that undergraduate recruiters never try to malign other schools to convince students to come to Harvard...
Black students' wariness at coming to Harvard stems from considerations other than just financial aid, Fitzgerald said. Admissions officials agreed, noting that although many Black students turned Harvard down to go to schools like the University of Virginia or Duke, which offer special scholarships, most Black students turned Harvard down to go to other Ivy League schools, which offer roughly the same amount of financial aid. Out of the 87 students turning Harvard down, more than 70 percent are going to other Ivy League schools or Stanford or MIT, said George Sanchez '81, an admissions officer who also helps oversee...
Because the clubs are such an integral part of many students' social lives. Princeton still echoes with vestiges of the cosmopolitan lifestyle of F Scott Fitzgerald and the flapper generation. But those images emanate from the design of Princeton itself. The sturdy elms which line and shade the streets and the row of terraced clubs down Prospect Avenue realfirm the traditional images of Old Nassau However, students say Fitzgerald's carefree mixture of youth and affluence appears rarely in their experiences as Princeton undergraduates, in part because they simply do not have the time. "We work awfully hard," said senior...