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...discussion forum College Confidential.com a February thread debating whether applying for aid will hurt a student's chances of getting admitted has been viewed nearly 25,000 times. At Skidmore, one figure suggests the answer is yes: students of color, who disproportionately applied for financial aid, made up a higher percentage of this year's applicant pool than last year's. But reflecting "the demands of financial aid," says Bates, they make up only 24% of the admitted pool this year, in contrast to 28% last year. "You've always been in an advantaged position to be rich and smart...
...event was not without context. In May 2007, a debate over racism ensued after HUPD responded to calls about an event organized by black student groups in the Quad. Cabot House residents sent a thread of e-mails questioning the presence of the student groups on the public lawn...
...Miss March” is a shitshow—literally. You know a movie is desperate when volatile explosions of feces constitute the film’s only real thread of comedy. In a world where boys will be boys and girls will be their playthings, “Miss March” slinks into a well-established lineup of testosterone-fueled “comedies” undercut by a dearth of real humor. The film lacks its own voice, and its characters are in an incessant struggle to find a wit that is uniquely theirs. Zach Cregger...
...first. “We’re not going to reach the academic achievement and academic goals that we want to reach if we have schools where staff and students don’t feel safe,” McGovern said. “School culture is the thread through all of the other goals that we’re trying to achieve,” he said. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama told a crowd of church members that religious good works make up “a thread that runs through our politics since the very beginning. And it puts the lie to the notion that separation of church and state in America means somehow that faith should have no role in public life.” Obama’s statement was met with much criticism—people complained that he was compromising the constitutional separation of religion and political action in an attempt to cater to the Christian right...