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...members who choose not be active in groups representing them. "A lot of Asians don't want to have anything to do with us," Ting says, adding, "A lot of them feel, 'my parents are making it, and I want to make it too,'" and worry only about their schoolwork and careers. Former American Indians at Harvard (AIH) president Charlene A very '82 says that in the past two years, when she served as co-president of AIH, she was continually coming up against what she called "computer Indians": students who receive special attention in the admissions process because...
Dershowitz has been contentious since his boyhood in Brooklyn's Boro Park section, but his intellectual powers were rarely applied to schoolwork. "You know, Alan," said his high school principal once, "you're very dumb, but you're very verbal. The only thing you can be is a lawyer." At Brooklyn College, Dershowitz suddenly became a serious student. He went on to Yale Law School, where he had what he calls "my first experience with anti-Semitism." The top student in his class, he applied to 32 Wall Street firms for a summer...
Reed's efforts to rise into these organizations might seem pathetic to any student putting a premium on time spent free at schoolwork: there John's priorities left no choice in the matter. He described three types of "Harvard men." The athlete he admired, but nevertheless regarded as something of a dullard. The serious scholars, he conceded benefited from both the discipline and depth of their training, but had none of the spirit that made life, and living it, an experience to be treasured. This spirit of enthusiasm and energy could only be appreciated by the "activities...
...Hodges, "women are seen as a source of entertainment and pleasure, something one consumes as one consumes sports cars." Hodges also believes that women make a positive contribution in the classroom, both because they add to the diversity of viewpoints and, he says, because they tend to take their schoolwork more seriously than men. Hampden-Sydney Junior Tom Robinson agrees: "All-male schools breed bigots and chauvinists...
Also finishing in the top ten for Harvard were freshmen Jenny Stricker (sixth, 18:02.7) and senior captain Kristen Linsley (eighth, 18:13.9). Stricker, who won last week's Ivy Championships, ran well despite missing some workouts due to schoolwork last week...