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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jewett says College policy concerning illnessdue to alcohol will remain unchanged, and studentswho seek medical attention due to an alcoholoverdose will receive it without disciplinaryaction...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: Alcohol Policy Poses Threat to Students' Social Life | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

Once the large-scale Trans-American Drug War quickly became a massive and deadly lesson of supply and demand, the DEA learned to seek greener public relations pastures. And they found them, in the minute and colorful world...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Scapegoats, Sentencing, and LSD | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...understand. When today's children are adults, their experience of growing up with a gay parent, or having a childhood acquaintance who did, is apt to have demystified for many the otherness of gays. In sufficient numbers, that could lead to precisely the matter-of-fact outlook that gays seek and antigay conservatives fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Parents: Under Fire and on the Rise | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...many academically qualified students seek Harvard admission; academic prowess cannot adequately determine who receives the mythical big envelope in the mail. Without examining other criteria--region, race, background, extracurricular experience, interests and special skills--it would be impossible to decide whom to admit. An admissions system that relied solely on academics would ultimately and necessarily result in admissions far more arbitrary than they lready are: admissions officers would have to randomly select 2,000 names from the pool of thousands of "qualified" applicants...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...standardized test scores the Mecca of objectivity that people like Stonecypher seek. The value of these tests has long been disputed, and studies have suggested that the tests carry a cultural bias and measure not intelligence or aptitude, but very specific knowledge...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

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