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With or without Tom Blake, the Crimson could not have looked much stronger on Saturday. Harvard swept the doubles matches with freshman James Blake and sophomore John Doran at the top position (8-4), junior Kunj Majmudar and freshman Scott Clark (8-5) in the second slot and Tseng and junior Mike Passarella (8-4) at third doubles. The domination carried through to singles play as Harvard jumped all over the Tigers at the beginning of the match...
Passerman, meanwhile, was in a tough match atthe sixth slot against David Schonbraun. The firstset went to the tiebreaker where Passermanprevailed...
...header versus Princeton on Saturday was supposed to be a matchup between the two best pitching staffs in the Ivy League. A pitching duel is definitely what emerged, two one-run ball games resulted and the Crimson showed that the Tigers will have to settle for the No. 2 slot among the best pitching staffs in the Ancient Eight...
...state university system. In response, last year an alliance of state legislators came up with the "10% Plan," which was first applied to this year's pool of applicants. Any Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10% of his or her class is guaranteed a slot at any of the state's public universities, including the highly selective University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M. At many of the state's public high schools, most of the students are black or Latino, so sponsors of the plan expected the new law to boost minority enrollments...
...Texas, the preliminary results of these experiments are in. And the hopes they inspired--that more minority students could be brought on board through approaches that don't address race head on--have deflated. At Berkeley minority admissions have plummeted. Of the 10,509 applicants who were offered a slot this year, only 2.4% are African American, down from 5.6% a year ago. Chicano students of Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about 34% of the state...