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...when an e-mail to the class of 2008 yesterday used three in a row, disaster seemed imminent. Around noon yesterday, the Harvard Alumni Association, which organizes the Class Marshal elections for the senior class, accidentally gave the Class of 2008 the ability to vote in the Class of 2009??s elections. HAA Senior Class Coordinator Alexandra Monti said that the two e-mail lists had been combined for an earlier purpose, causing the mistake. Both classes received e-mails with a link to the online ballot and passwords to allow them to log in and vote...
...been largely tolerated. Since the attacks, American defense expenditures have skyrocketed 26 percent—a rate of increase unsurpassed in any period of comparable length since World War II. To make matters worse, on Monday, President Bush asked for $515.4 billion for the peacetime military establishment in 2009??a $35.9 billion increase over his 2008 request. This yawning defense budget may seem a necessary evil in light of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, until we realize that the costs of these engagements are not factored into the proposed half-trillion dollar baseline budget. Bush...
Though small in scale—if approved, the department plans to admit just three students in the fall of 2009??the proposed graduate program will benefit both undergraduates and faculty enormously. Despite frequent complaints about teaching fellows dominating undergraduate pedagogy, the presence of graduate students actually enriches the undergraduate experience. Beyond providing undergraduates with more advanced course offerings and a pool of advisers and mentors, graduate programs create a culture of cutting edge research that in turn begets a more vibrant learning environment...
According to preliminary figures set to be released today, total applications to the Class of 2011 reached 22,920, surpassing the Class of 2009??s previous record of 22,796 applicants. The number of international applicants this year increased by 12 percent...
...York Times op-ed on Harvard’s elimination of its Early Action program, Stanford provost John Etchemendy described the publicity surrounding the change of policy as “short on facts and clearheaded analysis.” Indeed, we will have to wait until May 2009??when the first affected class will have committed to their universities—before the first set of concrete evidence will bear on the wisdom of the change. Nevertheless, we remain confident that higher education stands to benefit from the end of early admissions programs. Both Early Action...