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...imagination. But anecdotal and statistical evidence both suggest strongly that minority students are still not always made to feel welcome here. During my freshman year the president of the Black Students Association arrived at the group's office one day and found "KKK unite" written on the desk calendar. Shortly afterwards, she began receiving obscene phone calls and rape threats. And over the four years my class has been here, the yield for minority students--the percentage of those admitted who decided to come here--has dropped almost ten percentage points. For Black students the yield has dropped more than...
...implacably calm, Zaccaro is a steadying influence on his peripatetic wife. He overcame initial objections to her career ("I was real domineering then, but I've changed a lot"), and now radiates pride, escorting her silently but genially to the myriad banquets and functions that crowd her calendar...
...murals and other writings in the crypt are expected to provide scholars with further insight into the political and social structure of a society that used mathematics, charted the heavens, invented a calendar and constructed elaborate irrigation canals. The wall decorations and inscriptions indicate that the occupant was a member of a ruling family, probably an administrator. Among the artifacts was an unusual jar with a screw-top lid, possibly the earliest twist-open container discovered in the Western Hemisphere...
Rosovsky drags Spence to the myriad committee meetings that fill his calendar, but he has not found the transition to be like a final dash to the finish line. "It's more like a relay race," says Rosovsky. "I'm still running, and I'm getting ready to pass the baton to Michael Spence, and then he'll start running...
Last spring, minority students went head to head with the College over whether or not to list minority orientation events on the freshman week calendar. The College considered the events "separatist;" the students did not. While Fox's report goes a long way toward clarifying the administration's guiding philosophy on racial issues, it fails to offer administrators a better means of hearing--and understanding--student views...