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More timely concerns also surfaced when one alum asked Summers for his perspective on the recent spat between Summers and members of the Afro-American studies department, which was sparked by a confrontation between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel West...
...favorite cheer was probably the one involving an old alum who frequents Duke home games. There’s this guy (he’s probably in his 50s) who brings a white towel to every game and sits directly opposite and in plain view of the student section. At certain times, the students will break out with chants of “CRA-ZY TOWEL-GUY (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap) CRA-ZY TOWEL-GUY” to which he responds by popping out of his seat and going crazy with his towel. It is a thing of beauty...
...there’s much, much more. Alumni can set up new awards, endowing scholarships for the student who fills their old rank in class. The 23rd student in Introductory Physics could receive a bonus from a nostalgic alum...
DIED. NATHAN PUSEY, 94, president of Harvard who saw the university through the expansionist 1950s and '60s; in New York City. The Iowa-born Harvard alum created "need-blind" admissions and oversaw the near tripling of its administrative and teaching staff--including many women. He came under fire in 1969, when he called in police to oust from a campus building protesters from the radical Students for a Democratic Society. Pusey announced his retirement the next year...
However, many former Harvard students in New York have reported that their relationships with other members of their class have been a source of comfort. With so many former Harvard students living and working in New York, many graduates have turned to the Harvard (recent) alum community for support during their most trying moments this fall. Alex Beale 01, a graduate who works in public relations, admits that within 10 minutes of the first plane crash on September 11, she and her friends set up an e-mail list to ensure one anothers safety. And P. Ivonne Thompson...