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...group, these new Black literary theorists went to first-rate colleges or graduate schools in the formative period of Afro-American Studies during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They are familiar with both the practical politics of the Civil Rights movement and the rarefied academic politics of the university...
...addition to meeting those needs, McGrath said her priorities would include "opportunities for teacher renewal," increased parent involvement and reducing the dropout rate, especially among members of minority groups and people whose first language is not English. According to Fantini, Cambridge has a dropout rate of 38 percent...
After the rape last Wednesday of a Harvard employee in the Science Center, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said, "There has not been an increase in violent crime on the campus." What? Does he mean that he is content with a rape rate of about one every 1.5 years? Every rape is an increase in violent crime. Steiner went on to tell a reporter, "I don't think the Science Center is a place of unusual concern...
While the economy grew at a relatively modest 2.6% annual rate during the third quarter, the expansion actually amounted to 3.2% if the effects of the summer drought are excluded. That level of growth, while not quite inflationary in normal times, is straining against a shortage of workers and factory capacity. Unemployment in the U.S. has remained at low levels, though the Government reported last week that the jobless rate for November inched up to 5.4%, compared with 5.3% the previous month. Factories were operating at 84% of total capacity, the highest level since February...
CAPTION: Prime Rate % per year