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Taking into account the simple reality that few people can speak with any authority about the full collection of Harvard’s course offerings, this new program recognizes that students who have had successful academic experiences are best qualified to advise freshmen in choosing classes and concentrations, getting the best education from their professors and teaching fellows, and making the most of their Harvard education. The potential to pick just such successful students is vastly improved by the $1,000 stipend, which has led to a huge spike in applicants. Unfortunately, the apparent patronage employed in selecting some...
...College Events Board, the UC can afford to guarantee and augment its contributions to HoCos. We hope that a constitutional amendment will commit the UC to allocating a certain percentage of the UC’s budget to HoCos each semester. The UC should take House size into account when making its awards to the various HoCos, though the distribution should not be exactly proportional to population; merely it must take into consideration that Quincy with its over 460 students needs to spend more than Currier with its approximately 350 students in order to provide equitable services...
HoCos are among the student groups that have the most effect on daily student life on this campus, and they deserve the unwavering financial backing of the UC. A constitutional amendment that takes House size into account while guaranteeing percentage-based semester funding for HoCos will open new doors for HoCos across campus. We look forward to increasingly bold initiatives from the HoCos, and we call on the College and the UC to offer their support to HoCos in an effort to promote student social life...
These institutionalized criteria are only half the battle. Title IX has done little to change the perception of collegiate athletic culture and the aura of intimidation that surrounds men’s high profile sports. As of now, the stipulations of Title IX do not take into account that men’s high profile sports are recipients of significant outside funding from alumni that lower profile men and women’s sports entirely lack. Athletic opportunities have been institutionally equalized, but are not yet fair in execution...
...that the work of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, as well as his own work in Yale’s Investments Office alerted him to the possibility of divestment. The trustees were receptive to the proposal, Pietrosimone said. “We divested in a rapid manner, taking into account...our fiduciary responsibility,” said Kottage. Trustees credited the measure’s success and speedy passage to the nature of the Darfur issue. “It’s just a situation that can’t exist,” CERF Chair Jerry Sagnella said...