Word: lated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, I have not always felt that way. There were times when I was downright miserable. My academic performance plummeted from near-perfect marks as a first-year to Group III. For a time, I found myself withdrawing socially, a situation that even led to an unwanted late-night brush with University Health Services. I pulled out of the slump, thanks to a little luck and a lot of help from friends, mostly from this newspaper and from Kirkland, my adopted House. What surprised me is that no one on an administrative level at Harvard noticed any of these warning...
...quality of the nation's higher education system. But that is not the way things have to be. The University has led the way before, most recently with President Rudenstine leading the charge to reaffirm diversity in higher education. But other times it has dropped the ball, reacting late to nationwide reforms in financial aid programs and failing to forge real interdisciplinary links (where have all the interfaculty initiatives gone?) and to adopt innovative programs like ethnic studies. I challenge Harvard to lead the way again, to call for large research institutions--the upper elite and foundation of higher education...
After the fervor of the late 1960s, the 1970s ushered in yet a new white backlash to the "affirmative action" policies. Harvard's policy, documented and celebrated as "ideal" by the Supreme Court's 1974 Bakke v. California case, was to maintain its admissions system, but shift away from the language of affirmative action altogether...
Dean Thompson never replied to Professor Nesson's e-mail. The second letter I received marked "Personal and Confidential" came on Friday, May 28, 1999, late in the afternoon on the last day of the spring term. This was Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend's nine-page letter on behalf of the Docket Committee informing me that my formal grievance was in every respect "clearly without merit." Although the letter was stamped "Personal and Confidential" by the Office of the Dean, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles himself was the first to make the letter's contents...
When it's happening: Late June 2000, probably in Florida...