Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EARLIER this month, a group of Harvard graduates--including parents, lawyers, professors and community activists--gathered in Harvard Hall to share their experiences. One lawyer told of how she has represented poor tenants and abused women who cannot afford a lawyer. Another told of spearheading tenant activism on behalf of affordable rents. Another described his long hours as a public defender...
...Harvard, students tout tolerance and equity and awareness and diversity and other high-minded tenets of liberalism. But when it comes to their own lives, how many volunteer their time, how many make friends outside of their peer group, how many march for or otherwise act on their principles? How may just talk in circles...
HARVARD cannot bring ROTC back as a panacea for poverty-stricken students. The group is a vocation that should draw members based on interest in military leadership, not bribe people because of their destitution...
Both Green and Jackson rejected that logic. "You don't accept that one group of people can never be your friends," Green said. "You have to make the effort and it has to be sincere...
...trends have emerged that threaten the fundamental proposition of diversity as Harvard perceives it, especially over the long term. For every group besides Asian-Americans, admissions rates remain below national representation levels. Meanwhile, leaders of all student groups express concern that as competition increases among minority applicants, economic diversity among the students will decline...