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Zelleke and his family live in a house in Bole,an upper-class suburb of the capital of AddisAbaba, near the airport...
...Curve'spremise that the fact Blacks and Latinos have lower I.Q.s than whites is significant because "there is little question that whatever I.Q. measures has a lot to do with what is involved in becoming a doctor or lawyer or professor." As McGuire writes, "In fact, the gap between upper-class whites and upper-class Blacks...is actually wider than the gap between lower-class whites and lower-class Blacks. This fact, borne out by decades of scholarship, strongly suggests a genetic component...
Some people have pointed out, in these pages and elsewhere, that the painless process of first-year housing is the ideal. First-years have no control over their roommates or their housing when they first arrive here, and thus are spared much of the worry that comes along with upper-class housing. These arrangments often turn out very well. So, the argument goes, why not allow randomization and have this worryfree, stressless housing process for all students...
That's right. Nobody likes the Union. A random upper-class student will whole-heartedly offer one piece of advice to first-years: Don't eat at the Union. Apparently, a lot of people have listened. Check out how many fresh faces show up at dinner tables in Adams or Quincy every day. It's no surprise that these nearby houses have to put up "no interhouse" sings to protect their own residents, hence forcing the large flow of immigrants back to the place where they sadly belong. Still, a few determined eaters would rather walk to houses...
...Yale system assigns first-years to dormitories in the Old Yard; each dorm corresponds to an upper-class house. If students form sophomore rooming groups from more than one dorm, the group is randomly assigned to one of the students' houses...