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...think back, way back, to the day you received your packet of information about student jobs, along with the slew of other pamphlets Harvard mails to entering students, you might recall a small card describing the job placement program for first-years. The program offers three choices: find your own job, work dorm crew or join the ranks working in campus dining halls...
...maintains that the job placement program for first-years simply provides an easy way to match students in need of a job with two College agencies regularly seeking student labor...
...from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight, they're in Spanish. And these are all cultures I'm into and I respect them. It's the whole situation of urban placement. We're all in this one area just doing our thing, and on another level it's just like if you can't deal with plurality, then sampling just becomes an empty gesture. Anyone can sample anything you can turn of the radio and take whatever from the radio...
...Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone give them context and historical placement...
High-achieving black students who study hard complain that their less successful peers castigate them for "acting white." One black counselor said black students should not take difficult advanced-placement courses because they wouldn't do well in them. You could argue that such self-destructive behavior reflects a so-called slave mentality, but history suggests otherwise. The newly emancipated freedmen valued two things above all else: their own land and education. They certainly didn't think learning was "white...