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...SCIENCE CENTER terminal room is no place for a Harvard student at 4 a.m. But for the 138 students enrolled in AM110. "Introduction to Systems Programming," early-morning hours with the computer lost their novelty weeks ago. Missed classes and mangled schedules have become the norm for AM110ers as they scramble to complete their weekly assignments...
...week went way past irony, nearly all the way to poetry. Of many possible settings for its showcase, the National Collegiate Athletic Association selected Albuquerque, where two years ago a judge pointed to the easy morals of the community in declining to punish former University of New Mexico Coach Norm Ellenberger for fraud in the name of recruiting. The Lobos' gym lent to the N.C.A.A. for this occasion, the Final Four, is known...
Several universities, including Hampshire, University of Wisconsin, and University of Massachusetts, have completely divested their holdings in South Africa. Yet most universities are waiting to follow Harvard's lead on divestment. From curriculum reform to affirmative action, Harvard policy traditionally defines the norm for American universities: South African investment is no exception. Harvard's self-proclaimed role a leader of the academic community makes its complicity with apartheid all the more scandalous...
...uncertain about the reasons for high Asian performance. William Dean, who directs special programs in Fort Collins, Colo., where there are 150 Asian-born students, observes that whatever the students' verbal skills, "there is a universal language available in mathematics." The Asians speak it fluently. The national norm for math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 467 out of a possible 800. In 1981, Asian Americans averaged 513. In California a remarkable 68% of Japanese-born students scored over 600, as did 66% of students born in Korea...
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