Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serious even on the first-year level. At a towering six feet nine inches, John Moore '01 played a key role in his first-year team's capture of the '98 Yard Bucket. His team triumphed in both the 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 basketball divisions. Reflecting on his own surprisingly sensible perspective on IM athletics, Moore concedes, "It wasn't life or death, but people took it pretty seriously. We were very proud of [our championship]." As for Moore's teammates, though, he recalls that "a few guys who played high school athletics took it more seriously...
...panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...
...stand somewhere in between. I've been pleased with my life at Harvard as far as gender is concerned and have never once felt that my being a woman has denied me any opportunities or impeded my academic progress. Students here, I like to think, are on a level playing field regardless of their gender. And on the basis of observation, I believe my own experience has been hardly unique...
However, Fitzsimmons says the "competitive edge," or the level of achievement necessary for admission, does not vary much from year to year, regardless of whether the most qualified students apply in the early process or the regular one. Nor does the more affluent background of the early applicant pool mean that the diversity of the class changes, he says...
What is more, Fitzsimmons says the trend willprobably continue in the next few years, though itwill eventually level...