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...trouble started when I took advanced standing during my first year. When I went to sign up for a sophomore tutorial in the English department, the head tutor had no idea what to do with someone who didn't fit into the house assignment system. So much for the stellar advising system...
...dare he make such statements about people. I suggest he concentrate on his own studies. Comments such as his are precisely what keep Black people from applying to Harvard and raising the level of the "less-than-stellar" achievement of "Blacks and Latinos" at Harvard. I further suggest that he go research the Civil Rights movement and re-evaluate his understanding of what he perceives as the "worst form of condescension." Lydia Z. Dyett...
...Tigers and the Crimson shared the Ivy League title this year, but both teams are underdogs in the semifinals. Virginia (13-1) and Maryland (12-1) both received byes and now cruise into the Final Four with stellar seasons under their belts...
...action to work. Administrators, professors, and students who support affirmative action are letting students from disadvantaged backgrounds off the hook precisely when these students most need to catch up and take full advantage of the educational opportunities now available to them. By relaxing academic standards and excusing less-than-stellar achievement, we engage in the worst form of condescension. We are denying disadvantaged minorities the very legacy of the civil rights movement: a chance to prove themselves more than capable of meeting equal standards...
...WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A BEATLES SONG could presage a scientific discovery? Astronomers report in the current Science that they have just found a wealth of diamonds floating inside the dense clouds of gas that drift between the stars. Warmed by stellar radiation, chemicals within the clouds emit ultrafaint light, a different sort for each kind of molecule. Observers have already used telescopes to identify the light from such substances as alcohol and formaldehyde. Now comes evidence of pure carbon in the crystalline form familiar to jewelers everywhere. Elizabeth Taylor needn't get excited: these diamonds are microscopic in size. While...