Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to take issue with J. Wyatt Emmerich's editorial "Harvard: Behind Closed Doors," published in your February 13, 1978 edition. First, a clarification should be made: the blanket on the Report on the Core Curriculum is temporary; as I understand it, the Core report will be made public as soon as it is formally introduced to the Faculty. The justification for the confidentiality was delivered to myself and other members of the Educational Resource Group (ERG) by Associate Dean Glen W. Bowersock; he explained that a breach of protocol might irritate Faculty members to such a degree that...
...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...
...teacher cannot possibly give a good and informative recommendation for a student when he barely knows the students. This is inevitable when the teacher is trying to effectively teach 50 or more students. In addition to this, the typical situation is that many teachers do not sympathize with, understand, or have confidence in the aspirations of their Third World students--largely because most of those teachers are white...
There is a need for Third World people to recruit their own. Staff people insensitive to the experience of Third World people cannot and will not do a good job recruiting people they do not understand. Nor will they do a good job evaluating them. What is needed are more full-time Third World admissions officers, officers who share the same background as the large majority of Third World applicants...
...once identified, they are primarily felt as objects not of awe but of pity. The true Freak, however, stirs both supernatural terror and natural sympathy, since, unlike the fabulous monsters, he is one of us, the human child of human parents, however altered by forces we do not quite understand into something mythic and mysterious, as no mere cripple ever is. Passing either on the street, we may be simultaneously tempted to avert our eyes and to stare; but in the latter case we feel no threat to those desperately maintained boundaries on which any definition of sanity ultimately depends...