Archive for ‘November, 2006’

LETTER: Target should be those with fewer opportunities

n In response to Eleni Belisonzi’s letter (“Caucasian scholarship is ‘insensitive and ignorant’,” Nov. 29, p. 6) I ask the following: Do the “Hispanic only” or other race-based scholarships take into consideration the recipient’s financial status or lack of past “opportunities?” It is racist to treat people differently because of their skin color, on either side of the argument.

LETTER: Scholarship insensitive to ‘people at large’

n After hearing about the stunt pulled by Boston University’s College Republicans on CNN’s website, I was appalled at the insensitivity they had not only to minorities, but people at large. The letter printed by Eleni Belisonzi (“Caucasian scholarship is ‘insensitive and ignorant’,” Nov.

PERSPECTIVE: Don’t let Commonwealth Ave. fall by the wayside

Mud flings up from my tires, making a brown stain on the back of my shirt. My shoes are caked in rocks and dirt. The bottoms of my pants have been saturated by rainwater. After dodging puddles and mud holes, I finally arrive at the door of my apartment. To my dismay, I have a flat tire on my bike – the second in less than a week.

MACONE: Diary of my chat with an Iranian; a cat with an infected eye

A young man studies the posted bus routes from an odd angle so that I can see too. His thick, black hair is cut the way my barber used to cut mine before I was old enough to tell him what I wanted. “Beszél angolul?” I ask him in guidebook Hungarian. “Huh?” he replies.

Discrimination tips the scales

Like waistlines, obesity is expanding in America. In 1994, the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported 33 percent of American adults were overweight. Just six years later, the organization reported that number had jumped to 64 percent.