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...crippling psychological legacy of slavery in his family's past. He was African and American, as opposed to African American, although he certainly endured the casual cruelties of everyday life--in the new book, he speaks of white people mistaking him for a valet-parking attendant--that are visited upon nonwhites in America. "I had to reconcile a lot of different threads growing up--race, class," he told me. "For example, I was going to a fancy prep school, and my mother was on food stamps while she was getting her Ph.D." Obama believes his inability to fit neatly into...
PROVIDENCE—As many Brown fans were seen straggling into Stevenson Field during the second half of Saturday’s soccer showdown with Harvard, several voiced the same reaction upon seeing the scoreboard: “Oh my God.”In the first 12 minutes of play during that second frame, the Harvard men’s soccer team scored three goals en route to a 6-2 rout of the favored No. 14 Bears (8-3-1, 2-1-1 Ivy). Saturday’s win put the Crimson...
...Golden State did not look kindly upon the Harvard men’s water polo team, which faced a grueling schedule this past weekend and lost four straight games.On Friday, the Crimson dropped its first game against California Baptist, 9-4, but rebounded later that day to take the nightcap against Occidental with a score of 9-3.Harvard had no rest as it faced another two highly rated teams on Saturday. Neither game went the Crimson’s way as it dropped its first game against Pomona, 9-6, and lost the final match to No. 18 Redlands, 15-9.REDLANDS...
...recognized for doing so—just like applicants who have overcome other forms of adversity. Ultimately, however, because being gay is a personal matter, more so than being black or being Native American, a blanket affirmative action policy for gay students would oversimplify a complex issue highly dependent upon individual circumstance.This page has a history of supporting diversity. We firmly believe that cultivating a multi-racial, multi-faith, generally inclusive student body from a wide range of geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds benefits a university’s community. We also believe in a student body tolerant and supportive...
When the latest general education report was released last week, the world’s Harvard-watchers focused intently upon the report’s most unorthodox recommendation—a “reason and faith” requirement. It even made headlines in The Times of India...