Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eliminate the peculiar characters of the residential houses; after the Class of 2001 rises to sophomore status this September, the only vestiges of jock culture in Mather House will be its glorious weight room, and Adams House will be left with nothing more artistic than psychedelic hallways and a pool theater...
...word, Texas race-normed its admissions process. Most admitted white and Asian-American students invariably came from the top of the national pool of law school applicants. Most black students came from the lower half of the national pool. In 1992, the median LSAT score of white admitted students was at the 91st percentile; the median LSAT score of black admitted students was at the 78th percentile. More than 600 whites with higher LSAT scores were denied admission before the first black was denied admission...
...proceeded to tell him about the 13-year-old girl I met this past summer while working at the city pool as a life-guard. One day, after repeated requests that she and a group of boys refrain from making out in the pool, I threatened to have her sent home and banned from coming back for the rest of the summer. She blew up, shouting that she was "tired of niggers telling her what to do," and that she didn't have to listen to a mix-blooded person like me because, "you look like a mutt anyway...
Some people have managed to conjure up a balance between work and fun--or, worse, to make fun a priority. These are the people who hang out at bars or clubs on weeknight, play pool incessantly in the House basement, listen to pop music and watch reruns on TV. Yet while such choices are ours to make, these people are publicly derided and we all know it. Last semester, in the same space where the "Eight Days a Week" article appeared, The Crimson ran an article on "slackers" at Harvard (News, Oct.24). Despite a remarkably similar subject--surveying unusual students...
...Dionne has a very good grip on how things work at this school--how to get through a lot of the red tape," said Jason D. Williamson '98, current BSA president. But, he noted, the entire candidate pool was "pretty impressive...