Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Wake Forest] came in with some pretty tough players. We gave them a good match. The level of play was where we want it to be," senior Christina Dragomirescu said. "From the unity point of view, we're all there, eager and ready to play and win. For a first match, we were very ready...
...misquoted Hannah K. Vorwerk '90 in his statement that "Vorwerk described the Supreme Court's position on abortion as 'extreme' because it allows abortions as far as six months into pregnancy." Indeed, abortion in this country is legal through the ninth month, as documented in Doe v. Bolton. This point is specifically made in Vorwerk's article which, again, your reporter evidently failed to read...
...third point is a minor one. Your article named Vorwerk and Kathleen M. Taylor '90 as co-directors of Liberating Options and George P. Cassidy '90 as its secretary/treasurer. The publication itself has no officers or official positions other than editor. These titles are the positions formerly held by the above-mentioned individuals in the group, the Progressive Alliance for Life (PAL.) We have recently held elections, and as a new officer of PAL, I feel obliged to correct your mistakes. Again, these errors aside, the article was well-written and fair. Julie L. Whitman '93 Co-director, Harvard-Radcliffe...
...faculty inaccessibility is really symptomatic of a larger problem, that of the low priority accorded to teaching within academia and, in particular, at Harvard. Case in point: American historian Alan Brinkley taught the most popular course at Harvard four years ago, receiving the Undergraduate Council's 1987 Levenson Prize for teaching. That year, Brinkley was denied tenure...
Your irresponsibly premature article and survey on the first year student's house choices transformed our relief into anger and uncertainty. We were very angry. Angry that the point of the trial "non-ordered" choice had been defeated. By 4 p.m., many students, in a panic, would undoubtedly change their house choices. After agonizing over what houses we really liked best and whether or not we should try to "beat the system", we decided to do what Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 had intended. We, like most first year students, had listed four houses where we would...