Word: latters
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...associations with their respective minority status. There's a difference between an affluent black. Hispanic, or Asian student choosing not to apply for a minority scholarship and making sure female/minority applicants are considered fairly for positions they apply for. The former is a playing field of real choice, the Latter is one dictated by forces not so fair nor easily controlled. Getting to the point where minority and women candidates feel they are judged by the same standards as "everybody else" requires a little more complexity and a lot more thought than the position presented by Choi's column. --Virginia...
...high school quarterback in Las Vegas, Jay A. Snowden '98 was recruited by coaches from the University of Utah, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Brigham Young University--the latter a quarterback factory that produced San Francisco 49ers signal-caller Steve Young...
These considerations include the use of University facilities. The laboratories should be used to further the research of professors, not corporations. We would like to assume that the former have societal interests in mind, while the latter, by their very nature, are primarily concerned with profit. Professors must be free to pursue any of their ideas, especially if those projects are removed from possibility of financial gain. But it is important to ensure that the interests of the professors remain uncorrupted by the interests of companies they found, on whose board they serve or whose stock they own. Full disclosure...
...view technology as a panacea, noting that though the Internet may be an excellent disseminator of information, teacher student and student - student interaction is irreplaceable. He also deplores the mutation of cultural pluralism into "multiculturalism." While the former advocates the acceptance and inclusion of all cultures, he believes the latter seems preoccupied with a dangerously divisive, ethnocentric fragmentation...
...third year in a row the national homicide rate declined from 10.5 killings per 100,000 in 1993 to 9.7 per 100,000 in 1994-good news, to be sure, though the latter figure still represents a whopping 23,730 deaths from shooting, stabbing and other means...