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...Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus...
...happened that a scholar of his reputation and standing was not in fact consulted,” he said.Washington said it is important for academics to remember that, in the past, the work of African American scholars was often ignored by white intellectuals. Anderson was the first black sociologist hired by Penn, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “Given a historical context of marginalization, blacks become invisible sometimes,” Washington said.In his statement, Anderson acknowledged that he and Edin had settled their disagreement a few months ago.“I was satisfied by the agreement...
...anyone isperfectly situated to study retirement, it's sociologist Robert Weiss. In addition to his stellar academic affiliations (Harvard Medical School; the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston), he is living the life. "My occupational status is retired," explains Weiss, 80. "My way of life is, I work as hard as I can." He talked to TIME's ANDREA SACHS about his new book, The Experience of Retirement (Cornell University), which sums up 15 years of research...
...country, telling crowds, "I stand before you asking for your endorsement." Close on his heels, nine challengers have been giving raucous speeches, sometimes accusing him of tyranny and corruption, strictly taboo accusations less than a year ago. "The genie is out of the bottle," Saadeddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian sociologist once imprisoned for his pro-democracy activities, said in a TIME interview. "There is no way this regime can maintain one-man rule...
...Among its programs are three diabetes-focused self-care centers in struggling Chicago neighborhoods, each serving roughly a thousand residents a month, many of them undocumented and uninsured. Giachello, a University of Chicagoneducated sociologist and former social worker, has made the training of researchers, physicians and nurses a priority. "There are cultural elements to providing care that even top non-Hispanic students don't understand," she says. For example, she explains, many clinicians are ignorant about the widespread use of faith healers, herbal concoctions and other home remedies among Hispanics and so don't always know the relevant questions...