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...parent, former Eliot House resident John P. Adams '60, said this weekend showed him a lifestyle "light years apart" from his own experience at Harvard. Adams said that students are more informal today. But he said some things have not changed...
...percent is a little steep. When I read the reasons for it I didn't quite buy it," said parent George Lampros, business manager of the chemical labs at Harvard...
...long as I can afford it, it's my pleasure," said visiting parent Christine N. Davidson...
Some students may not have attended because they believed that interpersonal racism, which the conference emphasized, is not as important as the more glaring problem of institutional racism. Minority children in single-parent homes, economic inequalities, unfair sentencing practices and persistent exclusion from influential positions haunt our country. But it is impossible to separate institutional and personal racism, because institutional racism is simply an expression of more subtle personal prejudices...
Other child-development experts concur with Norton's findings. Many poor children, they note, are mystified by the "time-slotted" school environment, where crayons are often taken away before the picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...