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...report issued at the Walter E. Fernald State School in Waltham, Mass., last month could signal the end of a nightmarish chapter in the history of the University...
...fact, six of the 18 women who joined theLynx this year were already members of anotherexclusive all-female organization--a chapter ofthe Kappa Alpha Theta female "fraternity" formedby Harvard women in January of last year...
Eliezer Krumbein '46-'47. Frank M. Lowenberg '47 and Frost, the three founders of Harvard's Hillel chapter, say Jewish students had previously lacked a cultural identity. Indeed, the organization was formed partially to counter the widespread assimilation of Harvard Jews into the broader campus culture...
Shapiro was a charismatic, friendly leader.According to Feldstein, Shapiro was something of amaverick within the national Hillel organizationbecause he was not a rabbi; Shapiro's concern asthe chapter's first director was more with thelives of the students than with a specificreligious purpose...
Fallows mars an otherwise impressive array of facts and anecdotes by omitting materials that could dilute his arguments. The book includes a fascinating chapter on Japan's domination of the computer-chip industry in the 1980s, but it skips over new statistics showing that a South Korean firm is now the leading producer of low-end dram chips, while U.S. firms continue to control the more profitable high-end part of the business. Meanwhile, Japan's computer-hardware industry is in the doldrums and its software firms have yet to make their mark...