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...White professors were unwilling to give black students C's to avoid giving them a rough welcome [in the early 1970s]," Mansfield said. "At the same time they didn't give C's to white students to be fair...
...Finance W. Carl Kester says. “In a way, it’s a privilege that we have a broad range of activities that we can engage in, but it’s a privilege we have only if we keep our commitment to our teaching and avoid conflict of commitment...
...discussion attempted to avoid the political sticking points that remain in the Middle East and instead allow an airing of the different groups' feelings...
...contrast, Mandela negotiated with a lot more transparency, and always held himself accountable to his supporters, working to persuade them of the necessity of compromise rather than simply pretending it wasn't happening. He had rejected terrorism on principle: his soldiers were always under orders to avoid attacking civilians, even when their unarmed supporters on the ground were being massacred by the apartheid regime. And the South African leader also always displayed a keen understanding of his adversary's motivations and concerns, which gave him the ability both to read their tactics and articulate positions that could assuage their fears...
March 1, 1974: Record numbers of first-years apply to live in Leverett and Mather House in an effort to outsmart a new computerized housing program and avoid living in Radcliffe housing...