Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvardites exploited the advantage, starting up a rousing round of "safety school." The band rallied with hand-to-hand combat, holding up four fingers--Harvard finished fourth in a U.S. News and World Report poll ranking the best colleges in America--and performing other motions that we'll leave to the imagination...
...said that when he filed a report with a Harvard police officer, he met six or seven other people there whose jackets had been stolen. A few were Yale students and a few were upper-classmen, Jacobstein said...
SIFTING through my mail the other day, I found my high school's alumni bulletin, and headed straight for the report on my class. Among the news of promotion to the Navy Seals and the Most Valuable Player awards, I found "Kathy, having spent her sophomore year in Rome, is now readjusting to ordinary life at Georgetown." This seems unfair--my report, had I bothered to send in the little card, would read, "Jeffrey, a junior at Harvard, has a passport solely for the purpose of identification...
According to official University statistics, 6.2 percent of Harvard's tenured faculty are minorities. However, as the report of the MSA clearly documented last spring, the deceptive figure represents the conflation of minorities and foreign scholars, who comprise at least half of those counted as "minorities" in these inflated statistics. Yet Harvard's affirmative action goals for the next five years call for the hiring of only eleven more tenured minority profesors and an additional thirty-three tenure-tracked professors. The rest of the University's affirmative action initiatives will be directed toward attracting temporary and visiting scholars, unable...
...University's affirmative action report also claims that on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, no recruitment of minority faculty members is needed because their presence at all levels already exceeds the figures for the availability of minority scholars. How the administration can make such a blatantly deceptive claim despite strong student outcry for increased minority representation on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a mystery, especially given its history of ineffective and discriminatory hiring practices. This seemingly incongruous claim represents another example of the University's manipulation or disregard of evidence in the service of its politics...