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...mission of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) is to maintain and develop diversity in the undergraduate applicant pool--and thus in the accepted class as well. According to Banks, who directs the UMRP in addition to his responsibilities as a senior admissions officer, the organization is essential to these efforts...
While this appears to be a policy of tolerance, it is nothing but a crude attempt to exploit religion and transmute churches into another arm of the state propaganda apparatus. These state churches reek of the government's attempts to mold them into tools to maintain support for their regime. Their names and ideologies drip with the official mix of nationalism and support for the Communist party's authority. The official Catholic church is the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association; the principal theological seminary's mission is to train clergy who are patriotic and support the Communist Party. It is absurd...
...Betts is moving Bazaar into the sort of fashion coverage she instituted during her eight years at Vogue, where she highlighted trends from the street and created the Vogue Index, a popular, service-oriented section. "I think it's important to provide useful information but at the same time maintain the avant-garde photography for which Bazaar has traditionally been known," she says. "I'd like to give people something they can relate to, that's not foreign to them or of a certain insular world...
Despite these obvious strengths, the Big Green season has been disastrous thus far, as the squad has been unable to maintain consistent play. Dartmouth now stands six games under .500 overall and winless in four league games. And with the tougher games of the season still looming--two games apiece versus Penn and Princeton--things look bleak in New Hampshire...
...Crimson (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) blanked the Big Red on Friday, 5-0, and outlasted the Saints on Saturday, 6-3, to maintain a three-point lead over second-place Brown in the conference standings...