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Committee members are hesitant to identify areas other than admissions policies that might contribute to such perceptions. Adela Cepeda '80, one of the committee members, said the doubts may stem from what she called "socialization effects." It's not that minority students are not as intellectually competent, Cepeda said, but that they "are conditioned to think that they're not as good." Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation and a committee member, said he hopes the report will help dispel such myths. "The fact that some minority students perceive themselves as less than...
Committee members conclude that the greatest problems of race relations at the College stem from ignorance and misperceptions. At one of the committee's open meetings, more than two years ago, one white student said that "many of us simply don't even think about race relations at Harvard because it never touches our lives here." But the report indicates that the potential for change is there: more than 60 per cent of all respondents said they think they should "assume an active role in improving race relations...
...very, very easy way out. It doesn't try to find a response to redneck machismo; nor does it try to find one to intellectual machismo. It doesn't acknowledge the real and pressing question of how intellectuals are supposed to stem the tidal wave of jingoism Carter is engulfing...
...little fear of being frozen out of the Core altogether because the Faculty had voted to allow 80 to 100 courses, even more than Gen Ed offered in any single year. In truth, this mulitiplicity belies Rosovsky's aim of providing a "solid and shared base of knowledge" to stem a growing tide of academic specialization and pre-professionalism...
...Castro had unleashed the exodus by opening Mariel to foreign boats and issuing exit visas to those who wanted to leave. The impromptu rescue operation angered and embarrassed the Carter Administration, which held that the sealift was illegal and that the refugees were, at least technically, illegal aliens. To stem the tide, the U.S. Department of State warned that the skippers of the refugee boats could be liable for a $1,000 fine for each exile carried; moreover, their vessels could be seized and held by the Government until the penalties were paid...