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Before racking up a 19-0-1 record this season, Centenary had but two claims to fame: it's the alma mater of Celtic star Robert Parish, and it's the smallest Division I college in the country (943 enrollment...
Across the U.S.A.: Harvard moved up to fourth place in the ISAA national poll this week, bumping SMU into fifth. Indiana--Getman's alma mater--continues to hold the number-one spot, with Virginia ranked second and South Carolina third...
...same applies to his new novel, The Rules of Attraction, in which the village of the damned goes East. The setting is a New Hampshire college that resembles Bennington, the 23-year-old author's expensive alma mater. Ellis is proof that a best-selling writer can be downbeat as long as he is upscale. Had his subject been the degrading activities of East Los Angeles Chicanos or Newark blacks, he would have been branded an unfeeling racist and would have forfeited the privilege of being seen by millions on the Today show...
FRESHMEN SAT IN horrified silence two Sundays ago as President Bok opened a week of orientation with a scathing condemnation of "myths" concerning Harvard. These so-called "myths"--the word is Bok's--are in fact fundamental truths of our one-day alma mater. In his rejection of them, Bok likely caused some trepidation among those concerned with Harvard's leadership...
Other blacks, however, were quick to reap the benefits of the ruling. By the 1955-56 school year, more than half of all black grade-school children and two-thirds of whites were enrolled in mixed classes. By 1968 Linda's alma mater, Monroe Elementary, had a 25%-white student body. By the 1986-87 school year, not a single Topeka school had a student body less than 6.2% or more than 62% black. Twice during the 1970s, the Federal Government surveyed Topeka's schools and found them in compliance with desegregation policies. Still more striking were steady gains...