An unpublished report from Duke researchers shows that black undergraduates are disproportionally more likely to switch from tough majors to easier ones. “… switch explains how their grades wind up equaling whites, creating the impression that specially admitted students are improving academically…” We’re kinda wondering when there’s gonna be a program to specially admit more oriental kids into NCAA football and basketball.
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After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.
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