Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Women in White made all the moves last fall to change their upper echelon country club image while trying to improve on a 10-7 1976-77 slate, a new coach and a slew of top flight freshman only managed a typical 10-5 season and fourth place finish in the Ivy League...
Dershowitz also alleges that Harvard's recruiting policies tend to bring in middle and upper income minorities rather than those more disadvantaged. Jewett says Dershowitz's charges are "not totally true" and cites the fact that 70 to 80 per cent of all minority students receive financial aid. Jewett also says that there "is a point that people have to come to before we can admit them, maybe Harvard should have programs to fill the gaps (of a disadvantaged background) but our faculty is not oriented to provide remedial opportunities." Harvard is at the mercy of the way society...
Dershowitz attributes this inability to provide remedial education to laziness on the part of the Harvard admissions office and faculty. "I think Harvard is choosing to have upper income blacks because it makes it easier for Harvard," he says, adding that the Harvard admissions office is "extremely lazy" and looks only at superficial aspects of applicants rather than aggressively trying to recruit...
...critics take their main inspiration from a recently formed cadre of zealous upper-case runners. True Runners, these. They imagine that their activity sets them apart from and generally above the rest of humanity. Many come forth sounding as though they have been Zenned and Esalened and Rolfed and Primal Screamed into a state of exaltation hitherto achieved only by beings who talk to birds or turn miscreant wives into salt...
...core of Rukeyser's ventures remains Wall Street Week. Part of its appeal is that it creates a kind of party atmosphere in which viewers seem to eavesdrop on what investment professionals say to each other in private. The set resembles an upper-middle-class living room. Rukeyser begins with a five-minute summary of the week in business. He then opens a discussion with three analysts of the latest trends in the market and the financial world. Finally, the main guest?usually a member of the Administration or the business establishment?is brought in for a freewheeling...