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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undergraduates make up 60 per cent of the service's clientele, while the other 40 per cent are graduate students. The college students are primarily out for a good time, while the graduate students tend to be looking for a lifetime commitment, according to Bock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet a Nice Jewish Boy/Girl -- or -- Help Business in Israel | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

...problems Pellegrini and RUS must constantly fight is a "feminist-lesbian" stereotype, Pellegrini says. RUS is open to all woman in the Harvard community, but only the more liberal groups tend to associate with it. This places the union in a classic Catch-22 situation which Pellegrini has had difficulty overcoming...

Author: By Janet A. Sachs, | Title: Divestment's Not the Only Show in Town | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Willie maintains that the SAT and other aptitude tests are designed explicitly to measure the first-year performance of students in college or graduate school. But he said Blacks tend to "perform at a different temporal rate" than whites and while their first-year achievements may be lower, by the last year they may out-perform other students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Debate Value Of Standardized Tests | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

Harvard, at best, seems fenced on the issue. University officials' oft-stated concern for the rights of the accused can be translated into an excessively protective attitude for its power structure. The fact that the administrator in charge of hearing complaints is not an advocate would tend to make students less willing to go in and talk...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Whither Goodwill? | 10/23/1985 | See Source »

...interception. It's true that this is an important event in the fight against terrorism, but there has been a tremendous amount accomplished in the last year or so that is not as visible as this. People tend to register the things that are visible. But the fact is that through the development of better intelligence and of very good intelligence exchange--I might say $ outstanding with the Italians, for example--we have uncovered, prevented or aborted some 90 terrorist incidents in the last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: I Thought It Was Terrific | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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