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...good number of minority students join ethnic organizations, such as the Black Students Association and the Asian-American Association. However, most non-minority students look down on the leaders of these groups and fail to take their activities seriously, viewing them as anti-social in purpose and practice. As a result, Harvard ethnic organizations cannot stage any meaningful events that are not directed inward toward their own particular minority community. Students who choose to make these groups an important part of their lives begin to find their friends there and spend much of their time in ethnic activities...
These students who aim for complete assimilation, often at odds with their upbringing, go completely overboard in their effort to become the typical Harvard student. Some even go so far as to join the final clubs which implicitly look down upon them and use them for the sake of their image. However much this course may be the easier one, it brings with it the disgust of one's fellow minorities...
Will Innerspace, the new comedy-fantasy directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and "presented" by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones), join the parade of winners? Or even surpass them? It ought to. It's the summer's best "summer movie." This is a film with something -- indeed, too funny much -- for everybody. A sci-fi thriller in which one brave man is miniaturized to the size of a mote and takes a fantastic voyage into another man's buttock. A buddy picture in which both buddies occupy the same body. A classic romance of two men in love with the same girl...
North started visiting the Church of the Apostles after his eldest daughter Tait, 18, went there and then persuaded her family to join her. The congregation regularly offers prayers for North, and several members meet at North's home every Thursday night for a prayer session. "His faith is very evident," says Friend and Neighbor Betsy Smith. "It explains the peace that...
Nevertheless, Smith took the stand to give an emotional account of the experiences that led her father, a soft-spoken welder at the Santa Fe railroad yards and assistant pastor of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church, to join the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal struggle against segregation. She described the "feelings of inferiority" suffered by her children because they attended schools that were considered "black" though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with...