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While not even in the ballpark of the summer exodus to Limestone, Phish followers do travel from far and wide to crowd the Centrum to full capacity. Representing New York, Pennsylvania, and most of New England as well as various farther points of origin depending on the faithfulness of the followers, this year's crowd got to Worcester early and stayed late...
...high schools admit students strictly on the basis of an entrance test, black and Hispanic students represent fewer than 10 percent of those enrolled. Next year, when Boston Latin switches to a temporary race-blind admissions policy, some estimate black and Hispanic enrollment could drop to 13 percent; system-wide, black and Hispanic students make up 75 percent of Boston's 64,000 students. Selective public schools are often feeders into selective colleges and universities. And given the sad state of the city's public schools, for many underprivileged students these exam schools are the only means towards a quality...
...Each approach can address a wide range of texts, and, for that matter, can be defined narrowly," Greenblatt added...
...they had been forthright, is that students' ties to evangelical Christianity frightens them in a way that, say, students' involvement with ethnic or progressive groups does not. The Crimson displays a severe double standard; a good number of the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates have ties to a wide variety of student groups, but the Crimson staff does not cite those ties as hindrances to those candidates' effectiveness. It seems that among liberals, bias against religion may be one of the last acceptable prejudices. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH...
...call for a new campus newspaper that reflects a campus-wide commitment to ending racism, sexism, and homophobia, and promotes a vision of cultural empathy and understanding," they wrote...