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...ways. The stained glass filters the waning light and by 6 p.m. the church is awash in a peach and cobalt glow. As twilight approaches, the dancer’s bending shadows are cast on the church’s stone walls. The audience seated in an intimate three-tier platform directly in front of the dancers challenges the traditional distance between performer and viewer. Cabaret-like tables pepper the tiers. Reminiscent of smoke-filled clubs, the Weimar republic and Marlene Dietrich, Mateo says the tables allow the audience “to see the choreography from some unconventional angles...
...Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, in its annual survey of the enrollment of black first-years at top-tier colleges, recently reported a drop in Harvard’s yield, the percentage of students who accept the offer to enroll. For the class of 2006, only 61.2 percent of admitted black applicants decided to attend Harvard, as opposed to 63.8 last year, as reported in the Boston Globe. In absolute terms, there are six fewer black students in this year’s first-year class than last year. While this year’s drop will not lead...
...Harvard, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found. This year Yale, Brown, Princeton, Brown and Columbia all have admitted larger percentages of black students to their first-year classes than Harvard. As Harvard considers its strategies for combating this downward trend and competes with these other top-tier schools for students who will continue its commitment to diversity, it should look to emulate the strategies employed by other schools to attract minority candidates...
...Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon put it, “You can’t have all brass and no strings” in your school’s band. Furthermore, student athletes in the Ivy League have demonstrated a commitment to academics simply by choosing an academically top-tier school. A football player who only really wants to play in the NFL doesn’t go to Harvard, he goes to Florida. And the argument that Harvard seeks out athletes and not those who have excelled in other areas is also false—a serious flutist would...
With three of their next four games against nationally ranked teams, the Crimson’s win against California was a big step for a team that has struggled to play a truly complete game against top tier opponents. With a showdown against Princeton—winner of eight straight Ivy League titles—on the horizon, a performance like last night’s against Cal is a solid step to build upon...