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...planning to attend this weekend's Harvard-Dartmouth game, then, forget it. Take the GRE's in the afternoon. Watch Texas-Arkansas on the tube. Ride north and see the foliage. Just don't go to The Stadium...
...GRE scores in graduate admissions policies further discriminates against blacks. The Educational Testing Service claims that "questions that would reflect biases, such as those in favor of certain backgrounds or a particular sex, are carefully avoided." Yet these tests, rather than measuring competence, simply reflect the specific kinds of information which are acquired in courses at "major" universities. Even the structure and form of these tests reflect an elitist educational system...
...totally ridiculous to think that black students here are restricting black admissions, but it is not ridiculous for us to think that we can have a significant influence in reversing and improving present trends. Although we may be here with 4.0 GPA's, and 800 SAT's, GRE's LSAT's and MCAT's, we must never forget that these achievements are not responsible for black presence at Harvard. We are here because people before us fought the racist system that excluded black students from Harvard and most other institutions for hundreds of years. "Qualified" black students were around long...
...inconceivable that so many applications could be appreciably inferior to those of white students, even by standard admissions criteria. Even so, those criteria themselves ignore the facts that (contrary to popular myth) racist college professors often unjustifiably give low grades and poor recommendations to black students, and that GRE tests are culturally biased against blacks...
Waugh's words now sound ironic. As it celebrated its independence last week after 324 years of first French and then British rule, tiny Grenada (pronounced Gre-noy-da) and its two sister islands were wracked by disorder and threatened by civil war. Telephone and electric service have been out since the beginning of the year, and a general strike has crippled the country's economy. Bananas, one of Grenada's major exports, lie rotting in the fields, and nutmeg and cocoa, the two other principal crops, are piled up in warehouses with no one to load...