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Getting In
A look at the college admissions sweepstakes from both sides: we hear admissions counselors from two local high schools, public and private, and admissions officers from City College and M.I.T., to see if kids are getting the advice they need. Also, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) reacts to President Bush's new Iraq strategy; and writer and activist Kevin Powell on manhood, nationalism and Martin Luther King.
The Democrats React
Frank Lautenberg, Senator, D-NJ
- on the Democrats' reaction to the planned troop surge.
The MLK Dreaming
Kevin Powell, Brooklyn-based community activist and author,
Someday We’ll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press, 2006)
- on the relevancy of Martin Luther King today and the event
LOOKING FOR MARTIN:
Are Dr. King and His 'Dream' Still Relevant?
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Getting In
Stephen Singer, director of college counseling at the Horace Mann School, a private college preparatory school in Riverdale, NY
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Jon Roure, director of the CollegeBound, a school-based college counseling service at the Young Women's Leadership Foundation
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Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at MIT
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Joseph Fantozzi, director of admissions at City College
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Sarah Seltzer, Harvard College graduate who attended Horace Mann preparatory school
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Karina Beras, Cornell University sophomore who attended Health Opportunities High School in the South Bronx
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Joelle Menan, Hunter College sophomore and graduate of Health Opportunities High School, a small public New York City high school
-weigh in on the college admissions process
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