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...Trust distributes about $20,000 a year in grant money, a large portion of which comes from what has been a yearly $50,000 gift from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study...
Last year, 37 percent of Cambridge tenth graders who took the English section failed. This year, the failure rate dropped to 30 percent. And last year, 43 percent of Cambridge 10th graders who took the math portion failed; this year, that dropped to 36 percent. So there was about a 7 percent improvement rate for Cambridge’s sophomores in both sections—significant, surely, but far from the 20 percent gain that educators trumpeted...
...Crimson editorial from Feb. 1999 expressed the outrage a portion of the student body felt. “Expulsion and dismissal are both rare events at the College, with expulsion used mostly for admissions fraud cases and dismissal having been approved only 12 times in the last 40 years. Students who commit rape, a violent crime, should be included in those rare incidences of expulsion. If not this, what does it take to get kicked out of here?” The Crimson wrote...
...their male-only membership policy, final clubs are not officially recognized by Harvard as student organizations. But they fulfill a classic campus role, that of fraternities. So, while they provide social outlets for a sizable portion of the student body, many freshmen—and other students—are unaware of the circumstances under which they operate. Although it is unfair to label final club members as the sexual predators of the Harvard campus, the issue of rape and sexual assault cannot be fully explored without talking about these institutions...
...large, net-like structure like the one hanging in the air in front of Holyoke Center. Suspended by ropes—one of which extends all the way to the top of the Holyoke building—this conglomeration of mesh and colorful woodwork constitutes the sculptural portion of “Nest...