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...Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the Class of 2009’s House representative election Tuesday night, adding 12 new members—one from each undergraduate House—to the Senior Class Committee. The representatives will serve as liaisons between their Houses and the committee, which is charged with organizing social events for this year’s seniors and maintaining the College community after graduation, according to Alexandra Monti, the senior class coordinator at the Harvard Alumni Association. House masters and House committee leaders cited House pride and communicative ability when asked about many...
Citing support from both major presidential candidates, a conservative alumni organization called for the return of the Reserve Officer Training Corps to Harvard and four other universities in letters to the schools’ governing boards last week...
...letter, sent by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, quoted Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama endorsing ROTC training on college campuses...
...from ROTC scholarships—an amount that totals in the hundreds of thousands of dollars—to MIT to pay for overhead and other costs. He noted that Harvard used to make the payments but cut them off in the early 1990s. Since then, a group of alumni have been giving money to MIT to cover the administrative costs...
...against the existence of the elite,” Deresiewicz said. “We want the best people to be leading the country.” But, he said, “Elite education has become anti-intellectual. The purpose of Yale College is to manufacture Yale alumni.” Deresiewicz left Yale earlier this year, according to Elsa S. Kim ’08-’09, who helped organize the event. Deresiewicz said that being a thinker is very different from being a leader. “I am telling you to be counter-cultural...