Word: groups
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...Campus Security Committee, a student/faculty group charged with improving student security at Harvard, may implement a walking escort program in which students willing to walk in groups would identify themselves to other students by wearing lapel buttons. Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a member of Students Organized for Security (SOS), proposed the program at a meeting of the security committee yesterday...
...says he did not ask Klitgaard "to investigate the abilities or performance of particular groups of students--either by sex, race, or religion." But in effect that is what the bulk of Klitgaard's report does, making statements about different groups' relative performance and success on tests and in college and basing these statements only on group identity--Jewish, Black or female, for example--and ignoring any number of other relevant factors that together make each applicant an individual. These conclusions understandably insult students whom the report reduces to faceless members of arbitrarily isolated applicant groups...
...cross country (5-5, third at Big Three): It should be interesting to see how the harriers do at the Heptagonal meet this weekend. Bill McCurdy has brought along a solid group of runners and, as usual, maintained his sense of humor and equanimity...
...group is also looking at the curriculum at Brandeis University and at any adaptation of the system followed by Rice until 1969, Ewa Thompson, a professor of Russian who organized the petition, said Monday...
Getting the idea off the ground never promised to be simple. Canon Ed Rodman, minister to minorities for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, recently recalled the Covenant's genesis. "It really has two origins," Rodman said. One group, consisting mainly of "grass roots people" and ministers, hoped to turn the drive for racial harmony into a people's movement. The other, headed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy and Black Protestant ministers, wanted to stress the role of the organized church in promoting racial justice, Rodman said. The two were called to a meeting by Fr. Michael Groden...