Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teacher for two of the classes, Lucie Brock-Broido, was "probably the best teacher I've had at Harvard or anywhere else," the Marshall scholarship winner says...
...they came close. When model midshipman David A. Carney '89 revealed that he was gay, the military demanded that he return his scholarship money. At that point, the Faculty recognized that maintaining ties with ROTC represented a violation of Harvard's 1985 non-discrimination policy. But the Faculty stopped short of action. It pledged instead to cut ties with ROTC in two years, barring significant change in the military's policy toward gays...
Even on those technicalities, arguments for ROTC fail to persuade. For example, ROTC supporters suggest that if Harvard stopped accepting ROTC scholarship money, it would also have to reject scholarships that are available only to minorities, for the sake of "consistency" in anti-discrimination...
...Someone has to bear in mind that there's anobligation to raise money for scholarship forstudents who go here," Malkin says. "[Overseersshould be] watching over finances of theUniversity and fundraising for the University...
Shuttling boldly between fable and philosophy, Invisible Man is the story of a Candide of color. Down home, our unnamed hero is given a scholarship by the white gentry, then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...