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...Questions I couldn't figure out, Part Two: This one is perhaps the strangest question in the entire 18-page booklet: "Please assess the contribution of each of the following to the development of your sense of social responsibility and contribution to society." A variety of choices, including "House experience," are listed. Who says Harvard students necessarily have a "sense of social responsibilty"? Who would say that the "House experience" promotes this kind of responsibility? And why is this on a survey about College life? Strange...
...when he stormed out of school forever. After quitting a Roman Catholic academy, where white pupils harassed him because he was black, and then a vocational program he considered academically worthless, he made one last try at a public high school. But when he proudly submitted a 20-page report on Napoleon, the teacher accused him of having it ghostwritten by an older sister. That confrontation ended with Wilson defiantly shredding the essay. "The next day," he recalls, "I went and played basketball outside the principal's window, obviously in the unconscious hope someone would ask why I wasn...
...meeting, Bok said the 18-page questionnaire on College life was part of his efforts to develop a "more systematic approach to educational change and reform." And Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said afterwards that the survey "will build a nice agenda for us to work on the next five years...
Results of the 18-page questionnaire "will be made broadly available" after tabulation this spring, when President Bok will chair an open forum for students to discuss them, Whitla said...
...joint communique, distributed by Tass news agency, published on the front page of the government newspaper lzvestia and read during the nightly news program "Vremya." It omitted criticism of position taken by Pakistan and the United States at the Geneva peace talks. This omission could mean some behind-the-scenes compromise has been forged...