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...actual celebrities, the decision is easy: A sighting of Lou Dobbs ’67 in Harvard Yard (“looking puffy, greasy, and lumpy all at once…lighting a cigarette as if it might be his last”) is just plain blogworthy. Same goes for students who inject themselves into the public arena. When a Columbia student and Marine reservist started debating campus military recruiting on FOX News, for example, he became fair game; when it emerged in March that he’d acted under the nom de porn Rod Majors in such films...
...actual practice, this means that Parkes and his research group try to figure out ways to simulate real-world situations, such as matching the appropriate advertisements to people who are typing search terms into Google in an attempt to better match supply and demand...
...bring in a piece of clothing or an object and talk about why it’s an emblem of our identity. Most of the girls brought pieces of jewelry; one guy brought a shirt he received when he won a crew race. Since I forgot to bring an actual thing—I would have brought my skateboard (just kidding)—I had to talk about the enormous headphones that happened to be sitting on my neck. Suddenly they were going to be my identity...
...signaling of proposed and actual cuts in federal funding really hurt our ability to diversify the class as quickly as we would have liked,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—who was serving as acting dean in 1982—says. “We were frankly quite concerned that this kind of signaling could discourage students from low- and moderate-income backgrounds from applying to colleges at all, especially private colleges and universities...
...people have to read in the newspaper or hear on television that there are proposed or actual cuts in financial aid, what it tends to do is discourage low- and moderate-income students disproportionately because they often don’t have the [college] counselors,” he said. “Those kinds of things will affect students of modest means to a much greater extent...