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...recent study conducted and released by Princeton sociology professor Thomas Espenshade has unearthed alarming racial disparities in the SAT scores of those admitted to elite American universities. Epsenshade’s research suggests that Asian Americans with perfect 1600s in 1997 were being accepted into top colleges at the same rate as whites scoring 1460 and African Americans scoring 1150—a disturbing 450-point discrepancy...
Sure, sure, Boston is no Moscow, but what do ya say, Harvard? Could this be the perfect remedy for the seemingly campus-wide epidemic that is our love-hate relationship with snow? With Cambridge getting its first dousing of the white stuff on Sunday–the third earliest date of measurable accumulation according to National Weather Service (October 10, 1979 takes the cake)–we asked students whether they welcomed the sign of an early winter with delight or vexation. Find out what they had to say after the jump...
...current system is by no means perfect, or even acceptable. But an admissions process with a reasonable level of racial affirmative action is desirable compared to a process that does not even attempt to correct for the fact that this is not a racially egalitarian society. A more race-blind affirmative action cannot be said to represent a truly just meritocracy; it does not fulfill the prerequisite that everyone, regardless of race, have access to the same resources and networks necessary to be an attractive applicant...
Perhaps a perfect example of this shared excellence comes from the two schools’ women’s soccer programs, which will meet again in New Haven at three today after their Oct. 3 match-up was postponed due to lightning. Harvard (6-5-1, 3-0 Ivy) and Yale (8-4, 3-0 ivy) are the only Ivy teams still unbeaten in league play...
...Flies” does have redeeming qualities, though. As a result of Muller’s careful direction, the Furies jump around the stage in perfect, spastic coordination; two of Aegisthus’ men blind one another in a flashlight duel resembling that of a good Rosencrantz and Guildenstern staging...