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...Music Building, and nine out of 10 times one can find a grand piano not in use. But Paine, located behind the Science Center, is quite a trek from the River Houses and even farther from the Quad. Its hours are miserly, especially on weekends, and its grand pianos tend to be far less than grand. Although the Houses have practice facilities of their own, they often contain few rooms dedicated to keyboard practice, and their pianos are perpetually out of tune. Even the illustrious concert grand in the Eliot House tower—donated by Leonard Bernstein no less?...
...think I think people at Harvard tend to misunderstand what diversity really means,” he says. “I would value class diversity a lot more.” Mitchell, who comes from a working-class background and lived in a diverse part of central Texas, says he hasn’t found many similar people here. Many students at Harvard come from privileged backgrounds, he says...
When diversity at Harvard is discussed, issues of male-female ratios among students tend to be raised only in relation to social life: single-sex clubs and the like. But despite Harvard’s balance of undergraduate men and women, the issue of gender ratios is still very much alive in many concentrations, which must try to encourage students of both sexes to join while also responding to the unique needs of their predominately male or female constituencies...
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said yesterday the College’s admissions yields for black and Latino students tend to be roughly on par with those for white students...
...Nearly 30 percent of the electorate stayed away from Sunday's poll, and their abstention is believed to have hurt Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin more than any of his rivals. A large stay-away also means that the results were skewed to the more ideologically motivated voters, who tend to favor more extreme parties...