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October may be Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but this award only shows how a national tragedy is tolerated by our culture on a daily basis. Given the magnitude of the domestic violence problem in the United States, one would expect us to take it more seriously. A Commonwealth Fund survey found that almost one in three American women has been physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend. In another survey one in five female high school students reported having experienced violence in a relationship. In fact, most violence against women is committed by the men closest to them...
...very interested in business when I arrived in Cambridge, but there was no major offered that was strictly defined as business,” he writes in his survey response. “Acting on the advice of friends with similar motivations and similar problems, I was told that economics was the closest alternative...
Harvard has risen in the rankings dramatically since the survey was first instituted five years ago. In the 1999 survey, Harvard was ranked 28th. In following years, Harvard climbed to 19th and 11th before it broke into the top 10 this year...
Thomas LaVeist, a Johns Hopkins University professor, conducted the survey in collaboration with Black Enterprise. The survey only considered accredited four-year colleges that were well-known or had an African-American population of at least three percent. From the 482 eligible colleges, Black Enterprise polled 1,855 black higher education professionals about the social and educational environment of the schools...
...They do a very objective job of measuring attitudes of African Americans throughout the nation. I think [the survey] is to be taken seriously,” said Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations...