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...black schools, Savannah included, have their problems. Nationwide, 41% of black students graduate from college within six years (for white students, the figure is 59%). The rate is lower at the majority of HBCUs, which often accept low-performing students who may not have been given a chance elsewhere. At Savannah State, the figure hovers around 35%. A bigger problem is money: HBCUs are chronically underfunded, and Savannah State--with an endowment of just $3.4 million, compared with Armstrong's $7.9 million--is no exception. Harp expects the merger to help close that gap, an aspect of the plan that...
Handzo: Neuroscience may be a smaller case of a larger reality. We live in a culture where I think science, the evidence of science, trumps the evidence of faith. If you give a drug that's supposed to work in six months, and three years later you get a remission, that's called delayed effect. And I've said to my oncologist colleagues, Why is that not a miracle? What evidence do you have, because you have no evidence that this is delayed effect--it's just what you're calling it. Tell me that that's not a miracle...
...League) returned to the Barnaby Courts last night for its final regular-season match, hosting the third-ranked and archrival Bulldogs (13-2, 5-1). Yale promised to be a formidable opponent, showing energy and confidence as a result of winning five of their last six contests, and delivered with three matches in straight sets. However, the night began in high spirits for the Crimson, as it was Senior Day for Verdi DiSesa, Niko Hrdy and Ned Reeves.Hrdy—seeded at four this week—gave a very impressive showing in one of the three opening matches...
...that anybody can be missing and we can still play well,” he added. “The girls have the ability and the belief to keep stepping up.”That is not to say that it was easy—six out of the nine matches went to a decisive fifth set.A thrilling 3-2 victory at No. 8 by junior Sandra Mumanachit was offset early by an equally heartbreaking defeat at the No. 3 spot. Junior Katherine O’Donnell had a 2-1 edge over the Bulldogs?...
...Robinson have been chosen as the new masters of Winthrop House, and the first black House Masters in Harvard history, College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced yesterday afternoon. They will assume their new posts next fall, replacing Professor Stephen P. Rosen and Mandana Sassanfar, who called it quits after six years as the Winthrop House Masters, citing personal reasons for the decision. The pick comes as part of a recent push by Hammonds to foster greater diversity among House Masters, a group that contains few minority members. In an interview last December, the Dean said that she hopes to usher...