Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Asian-Americans have not been underrepresented in the applicant pool over the years, he says. And while students now argue that there are pockets of underrepresentation, such as urban areas, Chinatowns and Little Tokyos, Jewett says he is willing to work with any groups of students which believes its members are significantly handicapped in receiving information about Harvard and applying to the College. And Jewett says it has only been in recent years the Asian-American students have expressed an interest in coordinating activities, like student travel and correspondence with his office...
...University, Mass. Institute of Technology, Boston College, Wellesley and Tufts, the Extension School has been solely a Harvard operation from the start. The Lowell Institute provides a small amount of funding (about 7 per cent of annual revenues) and the Commission a helpful facade of community cohesion and a pool for the extension school's faculty...
...Asian Americans now working with the Admissions Office. The revelations inherent in the clarifications and guidelines of Affirmative Action programs are but one argument in the case against long-standing admissions and recruitment practices. Asian Americans at Harvard believe that their representation within the College and within the applicant pool for the College does not parallel in socioeconomic status the backgrounds of the majority of Asian Americans in the country, and, more importantly, that this condition results as much from distorted conceptions of Harvard-Radcliffe held by prospective candidates as from the disadvantaged academic training that many from this majority...
...ward and laterally through a national history that somewhat resembles the blur of civil wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...
Realilstic scenes of life (birth, play, death), but there is no everyday banality to these photos. It's all in the way they've looked at it; the shot of birth from the rear, of kids around a pool at a three-foot high eye level...