Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
PSLM, an activist group within the Phillips Brooks House Association, promotes social and economic justice and supports organized labor...
...Black Enterprise rankings are not worth our notice, nor is our numerical placement worthy of the staff's concern. The entire survey, including the social rating that the staff focuses on, was seriously flawed. Those determining the rating need not have attended Harvard nor even have set foot on the campus. To assign their opinion a grain of salt is generous...
Further, there was a direct relationship between a school's percentage of black students and its social rating. We should not kowtow to the notion that minorities can only feel comfortable in each other's company. While randomization is problematic on many levels, the demise of self-segregation should be lauded, not lamented...
...University's performance on another criterion-the social experience of black students-is alarming. Harvard received a disappointing score of 3.75 out of 5. While no ranking can be taken without a grain of salt, and the criteria of this ranking seem especially vague, the rankings nevertheless should remind us of a troubling fact: Harvard is still a place where black students feel markedly less comfortable than their white counterparts...