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...from achieving at the level of applicants who have not faced such adversity. Second, historical wrongdoings and current social attitudes make it more likely that individuals from these groups will face race-based discrimination, explicit or implicit, at some point during their lifetimes. Third, universities themselves benefit from the wider exchange of ideas that arises from diverse student bodies. What about for homosexual applicants? Until recently, Harvard has been quite a hostile place for gay students to go to school. From secret courts in the early 20th century charged with evicting homosexuals to tacit ostracism that continues to some degree...
...interviews, three former prisoners jailed in the Damascus facility told Grey that they were regularly beaten by Syrian interrogators, and that they had been held in cells barely longer and wider than coffins. While in solitary confinement, they say they communicated with each other in snatched conversations through the walls, and sensed the presence of other prisoners also through their screams during torture sessions. One former prisoner told Grey that he had spoken through the walls with a jailed teenager, who told the man he had been transferred from Pakistan to Syria by U.S.agents. The adult prisoner recalled the teenager...
...film is shortsighted in its consideration of the wider problem of child abuse in the Church. Showcasing advocates of the victims’ rights like Father Tom Doyle does allow viewers to see the work being done within the Church to combat the problem. But by implicating the Church’s most powerful figure—Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI—in the scandal, the film accuses the entire hierarchy of the cover-up and reconstructs Church history to peripherally implicate priest celibacy as the cause of clergymen’s sexual deviance...
...general education requirements may focus too closely on aspects of the past that seem relevant to contemporary conflicts—like “Historical Study B-11: The Crusades,” one of the courses mentioned in the new report—at the cost of wider historical understanding...
...caloric intake, and weight change. Most users give up on their diet plans because of a lack of a strong support network, McLean-Foreman said. “Users can track their development through graphs with data points and photos,” he said. While Traineo targets a wider audience, McLean-Foreman said first-years seeking to avoid the ‘Freshman 15’ might find the site of particular use. Though several first-years said that the ‘Freshman 15’ was far from a concern, others said that the prospect of putting...