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...time when sports and other extracurricular activities are being cut from schools throughout the U.S., solely getting rid of soda and other sugar-filled drinks is a Band-Aid for a bigger problem. Although I understand how those drinks help contribute to the problems of obesity and Type 2 diabetes faced by our youth, we must not forget that physical education and sports programs, which also prevent obesity and diabetes, are being trimmed from inner-city-school budgets every year. I commend the Clinton Foundation for its efforts, but I suggest that its campaign be extended to highlight the importance...
...were welcome, and their campaign to give Harvard students a more free choice of roommates by eliminating restrictions on mixed gender rooming will improve the quality of life of those students uncomfortable with mandated single-sex housing. Additionally, the UC advocated reduced textbook costs for students on financial aid and encouraged the College to coordinate online resources to bring coursepack costs under control. The year ended with a final display of political fireworks. After the UC spun off its social programming functions to an independent, University Hall-funded College Events Board mid-semester, it had to consider what...
...oversee a new Office of Advising (which the College has been quick to do—naming Monique Rinere to the post last December) and the transformation of the Prefect program into a peer advising program for upperclassmen to advise freshmen. Other committees’ recommendations included expanding financial aid for summer study abroad programs and creating more integrative, introductory science courses in the life and physical sciences. We wholeheartedly endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee and the Committee on a January Term, on the other hand, we view with some skepticism...
...organization has a Development/Real Estate Committee to aid this effort...
...Harvard,” according to her junior- and senior-year roommate in Kirkland House, Linda S. Burrows ’81.Alice E. Hill ’81, Worth’s other roommate, remembers Worth as successfully juggling commitments throughout her time here.“Financial aid was not as generous as it is today, [but] she worked all the way through her four years at Harvard while maintaining a full-on load of academic subjects and extracurricular activities,” Hill says. “She jumped fully into [all of the] opportunities studying at Harvard...