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Ansel A. Payne ’04 from Roane County, West Virginia said his childhood in rural Appalachia gave him a distinctive understanding on a history of exploitation rarely addressed in courses here. The contrast between perceptions of the poor at Harvard and their day-to-day reality was striking to Maggie J. Morgan ’04 when she arrived here from Tupelo, Mississippi. “People here need a broader perspective of how others actually live. Many think poor people are just some abstract group that needs to be reformed,” she said...
...Harvard,” as Director of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) Roger Banks assures me it does, then the students and guidance counselors I contacted might advise us to buy a new net. Payne said he saw no admissions materials or information from Harvard at his West Virginia high school, which draws from an area where the median income is $25,000. Among talented students at his school, “Many don’t know that Harvard is an option.” Goins observed in her recruiting work as a UMRP representative in Louisiana that...
...United States Under-19 national tournament, and he was recruited by every major squash program in the country. This past weekend, he wasted no time beginning to fulfill his potential when he accompanied co-captain Dylan Patterson to the Price-Bullington Invitational at The Country Club of Richmond in Virginia...
...Price-Bullington is the longest running independent collegiate tournament in the country, and is an invitation-only affair. Fifteen of the top collegiate players in the country are invited to compete, and a sixteenth player earns a spot by winning a qualifying event locally in Virginia. Currently, Harvard’s top three players are Broadbent, junior James Bullock and Patterson, respectively, but Bullock was unable to attend due to an academic commitment...
Patterson then went on to the consolation bracket, playing the local Virginia qualifier and winning by a score...