Word: regatta
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Harvard officials said yesterday they are confident that campus security will be tight when thousands of people converge in the Square for next weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta and the inauguration of President Neil L. Rudenstine...
...past years, the Regatta has drawn crowds of 200,000, and University spokesperson Peter Costa predicted that more than 10,000 people would come for the induction...
...added that other precautionary measures, including restrictions on the numbers of visitors and overnight guests students may have, will be enforced throughout the Regatta weekend. The University is also requiring advance registration for all social functions, including private parties...
Critics of ethnic bias can point to such celebrated examples as the use of the word regatta on a College Board exam of a few years past -- a term that had little to do with experience in the inner city. Educational Testing Service, which administers the College Boards, now reviews each exam question for such assumptions. However, the desire to meet minority concerns has also led to such skewing practices as "race norming," the comparison of test scores only within minority groups rather than across the board. That can lead to a subtle undermining of minority achievement. It is, indeed...
...Crimson, which was seeded second going into the regatta, covered the 2000-meter course in 5:48. Princeton came in second in 5:53 and Cornell followed in third...