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...Tillie Olsen it is the natural need of the talented to express themselves. Social forces and norms create many barriers to the realization of talent. "Throughout the ages the greatest silencers have been: sex, race, and creed." She writes of the silences of ages past so that literature might be cracked open and the many missing experiences added to it. She ends her book Silences with a quote by Virginia Woolf which opens up literature to the realities and needs of everyone...
...Olsen said the committee will also use the survey to improve the roommate placement system and the advanced standing program, and to revise the "Guide to the Houses" pamphlet which he said is misleading, out-of-date and too subjective...
...Olsen said the section of the survey on advanced standing was designed by Mack I. Davis, the director of advanced standing. Davis will use survey data in his current revision of the program, Olsen said...
...purpose of the survey "is not to criticize the University, but to provide feedback for the Freshman Council to act on," Olsen said...
...Olsen and Prieto said there are three main areas the committee hopes to alter as a result of the survey. They hope to make Harvard...