Word: granted
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...Black frat members say their organizationsdo not haze. Says Jay Grant '89, a Harvard memberof the MIT-based Kappa Alpha Psi, says "We're nota hazing fraternity. It's a lot of discipline.People get the wrong impression seeing themrunning through the Yard in formation...
People who are not involved with Blackfraternities or sororities "have this militaristicimage of us," Grant says. When people see pledgesupholding the vow of silence, they begin to makeassumptions, he says, adding that pledges chooseto take the vow and may break it if they want...
...This is part of the Black experience. I don'tsee it as promoting separation," Grant says. "IfHarvard wants to talk about diversity they have torealize that by mixing us together at some pointwe will go back to our own. It is a unique part ofthe Black experience, no different than going tothe Hillel or the Phoenix...
Administrators grant that some athletes who might be able to meet the academic standards of Ivy League schools are lured away by scholarships and the promise of participating in big games in front of big crowds...
...Gore, the only candidate who has said that he has tried marijuana, enlisted the support of Mayor Ed Koch, New York City's highest-volume antidrug crusader. Gore's quest has come to resemble Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Wilderness Campaign, a murky and meandering series of ill-conceived firefights in search of a clear battlefield. Gore, Jackson and Dukakis emphasized a theme that is bound to play a role in the fall election: the willingness of Reagan and Bush to cozy up to the Noriega regime even after there was evidence that he was serving as a conduit...