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SUCH SIGNIFICANT declines in enrollment probably do not occur without some type of change in admissions practices. At present, black students are more vulnerable to policy changes than any other group. As new members of the Harvard student community, blacks do not have an alumni or faculty power base to deal with admissions policy. WASPs and Jews have either one or both of these two powerful supports in their corner. As ethnic groups jockey for more slots in the College, places that belong to black students are least secure...
...Friendships will be struck, romances started, food fights will erupt, political conspiracies argued, gossip will be gleaned and scholarly one-upmanship will be victorious over what must be the world's worst coffee. Dramatic social conflicts of whom to acknowledge, glance at, ignore completely or sit with occur every minute in the often zoo-like dining room...
...score-keeping on these shows is probably a fallout from the region's interest in space-age technology. The emphasis on rewarding winners with the materiel of the good life-patio furniture, camping equipment and cars, cars, cars -suits the fabled Southern California lifestyle. It would never occur to a Manhattan-based producer that such stuff could be thought of as a necessity, not a nuisance...
...most poignant scene in Robert Altman's latest film, California Split, does not occur in the casinos frequented by its two lead characters, a pair of compulsive gamblers. Nor does it happen at the racetrack or boxing ring or other betting locales the two visit. It has nothing to do with the relationship between the two characters, Bill and Charlie (played by George Segal and Elliott Gould), nor with their dealings with the couple of prostitutes Charlie lives with...
...Bennett, who resigned his White House job last April to become a vice president of a pipeline company in Alaska. Says Bennett: "It is hard to believe that there was tampering with the White House tapes, yet it is just as hard to believe that tampering did not occur. I have a feeling that, somewhere along the line, someone messed with those tapes...