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...main argument for the percentage policy is that it levels the socioeconomic playing field by giving hardworking students from underperforming secondary schools a chance to get a college education. Proponents of affirmative action, however, argue that this approach removes minority students from the top state universities. In California, for example, minority college enrollment has remained steady under the new system, but has tailed off at top schools, such as UC Berkeley and UCLA, and in the most competitive graduate programs. This phenomenon is known as "cascading" - dropping large chunks of minority populations down from top-tier to medium- and lower...
...Stanford and Brown systems attempt to address what many Harvard first-years say is their main complaint about the system: lack of Faculty involvement...
...equivalent language. No doubt Schulze is a master craftsman, but his few missteps in this new volume lead one to hold back unabashed praise. We shall wait to see if he indeed becomes the "new epic storyteller" that Gunter Grass has pegged him to be. Until that main course, wet your palate on Simple Stories...
...eyes of the consumer, these products exemplify Thoreau's celebrated "simplicity." The company's best-seller is a drink you can buy at Store 24 for a little over a dollar. Its two main ingredients are sugar and water, and it comes in a plastic bottle with a twist-off cap and coated wrap-around paper label. That...
...years that in the case of youth violence, this response isn't borne out by the numbers." To wit: The chance of getting killed in school is one in 2 million, while seven out of 10 people think that school shootings are possible in their neighborhood. "Schools' main response to public perceptions of crime is to expel and suspend more children," says Jason Ziedenberg of the Justice Policy Institute. "The way to rehabilitate a kid is not to take away his education. Anybody who thinks about it will realize that...