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...pursued it further. The most common alternative analysis of the problem is an economic one. Simply, that tight money means fewer applications from black students, even 20 to 25 per cent less. Well, it is first necessary to remind those who hold this economic view, that Chicano and Puerto Rican applications have increased despite tight money. In addition, I think that the percentage of black students on financial aid at Harvard is lower than what might be commonly surmised...
...left before they actually served the [Middlesex Superior Court] order because the administration said that they would take that into consideration in deciding about disciplinary action," Naomi Vega, a Brandeis senior of Puerto Rican descent, said yesterday...
Approximately 4500 students applied to the GSAS this year, of whom 117 were black, 59 fewer black applicants than last year. But the number of applicants from other minority groups--notably the Mexican and Puerto Rican minorities--kept pace with the trend in overall GSAS applications and slightly increased...
However, the squeeze does not seem to have affected other minority groups in low income brackets. The number of Puerto Rican and Mexican students applying to Harvard rose substantially this year...
Read one way, maybe the wrong way, The Autograph Hound is a cliche checklist of comic Americana. It's set near Times Square (funny on the face of it, no?), and much of the action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny...