Word: successful
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...essay, Cox asserts that different sexed plants utilize different resources. He goes on to suggest that this division in resources has led to these plants' evolutionary success...
Further, it has been shown that the SATs have little or no correlation with the future academic or professional success of minority students. How could SATs possibly test the verbal capabilities of a Third World student, when many of the words used in the test do not exist in his or her environment? Words such as canopy, blender, pantry or perambulator are common for the average white student. But they are not familiar to minority students. A Third World student's depth of assimilation into a white society cannot be the only judge of future performance...
...admissions officer whose life experience has largely consisted of trees, birds, babbling brooks and grandma's applie pie understand the graffiti, garbage and noise of a city ghetto? A person from one environment cannot possibly be fair in evaluating the success of an applicant from a totally different environment, and yet this is what the admissions office does...
...typical alumni interviewer is a middle-aged preppie, financially successful, who is primarily interested in seeing students of his own ilk admitted. He seldom if ever has any extensive contact with Third World people. He continues to judge success in terms of a white upper middle class experience, and condemns Third World people for not living such an experience. The admissions office makes it clear that alumni interviews and the alumni are vital parts of the process, yet nothing is being done to change the all-white and unfair character of this and other parts of admissions and recruitment...
...worthy theatrical venture merits sincere wishes for success, but the Off-Broadway Theatre may not get much of a chance to show its stuff if it doesn't come up with better material than American Buffalo, the David Mamet play of several years ago chosen as its first production. These days, Mamet is a playwright of some note. His talent seems to have matured--his A Life in the Theatre, currently running at the real off-Broadway, in Greenwich Village, is a marvelous work, full of wit and the kind of charm only a developed writer can muster. But American...