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...She’s gotten more and more vocal every day,” Monti said in February. “When she first started, you had to pry words from her. We need her voice out there...
However, in recent years, faculty members have been more vocal in their criticisms as well...
...Faculty helped bring about greater outside scrutiny of grade inflation at Harvard. Mansfield’s suggestion that the admission of larger numbers of black students in the 1970s contributed to or initiated this trend earned him the ire of the Black Students’ Association, but his vocal criticism of the number of high grades earned by Harvard students helped draw national media coverage to the numbers of undergraduates in the United States who earn high grades. The University revealed that 91 percent of last year’s graduating seniors graduated with some sort of an honors degree...
...have watched with considerable sadness and disappointment as a vocal minority protests Yasin’s speech. At press time, 309 graduating students, 170 other students, 57 faculty members, 551 alumni, 141 parents, 3,460 community members and 68 emergency services personnel—4,756 people in total—have signed an online petition opposing the choice of Yasin and urging the public to consider his background as they listen to his speech. It also calls on Yasin to publicly denounce violence in the name of jihad and the events of Sept. 11 in the speech...
...conversation in Modesto has thus far been much less conciliatory. Despite repeated calls for reform from a small but vocal black parents' group, the district is not weighing any changes to its discipline code. Administrators will not comment on particular cases, but Jim Pfaff, Modesto's associate superintendent, points out that district policy stipulates a stiffer penalty for a student, like Russell, who inflicts injuries causing "stitches, loss of consciousness or a fracture." Pfaff attributes the high rate of black expulsions to an influx of black families from San Francisco "who do not understand" Modesto's discipline code, which provides...