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Amid a brewing global debate about how best to address the system of racial apartheid in South Africa, Harvard’s graduating classes in the mid-1980s sought to bring the issue closer to home. Beginning with the class of 1983, graduating seniors created an alternative fund to the traditional senior gift called the Endowment for Divestiture in an effort to pressure the University to divest its endowment funds from companies doing business in South Africa—a call that echoed the United Nation’s similar recommendation...
...Expand academic, peer, and counseling support: Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel would expand its wide array of counseling, workshops, discussions groups, and courses to address the needs of first-generation and low-income college goers. It would train its tutors, group leaders, and peer counselors about the unique academic, socio-economic, and institutional challenges the underrepresented students may experience...
...don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it,” President Drew Gilpin Faust warned the Class of 2008 in her Baccalaureate address last year. Speaking before a class of graduates, 38 percent of whom had elected careers in finance and consulting, Faust nevertheless sensed an anxiety that seniors had found their chosen professional paths somewhat “troubling.” As she anatomized the problem, “You are not sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious brand name organization together with the promise...
...pomp and circumstance of Commencement. As newly-commissioned officers in the U.S. armed forces, the students are part of a tradition of service that dates back decades and that once involved hundreds of students. Today’s ceremony will also highlight a relatively new tradition: an address by the university president, the seventh in eight years...
President Obama is searching for yet another White House czar to tackle a pressing public concern - and this time it's personal. On May 29 Obama announced a high-level initiative to address the growing problem of computer attacks - against the government, corporations and individuals - by coordinating the various efforts to fight hackers and other computer criminals under the direction of a coordinator already dubbed the "cyber czar." (Read "Those Crazy Internet Security Questions...