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...face-value solution to a problem that runs deeper than race. Although ethnic diversity is an important goal, socioeconomic diversity should be given more prominence in admissions decisions than it has been given in the past. In an age when economic stratification and the income gap are drastically increasing the rift between the haves and the have-nots, students’ access, or lack thereof, to educational resources is playing a greater role in determining their academic futures. Though there is often an overlap in the communities that ethnic and socioeconomic diversification aim to serve, considering only ethnic diversity...
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris said last week that the Faculty Council endorsed switching the scale in order to eliminate the gap between a B-plus and an A-minus. He said this gap might cause some professors to award higher grades...
...Crimson’s spring break trip to Florida, San Salvador was a victim of his own hustle. After reaching base on a fielder’s choice, he was waved around second when senior Chaney Sheffield ripped a shot up the gap, but never made it to third...
...interacting with people from both cultures, I hope to mend the gap between these societies,” he said...
Slowly, though, Princeton narrowed the gap and then moved ahead with a strong move in the third 500 meters of the race, eventually winning by over four seconds...