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...alumnus has such a reputation about hispast that his high school crimes continue to serveas dining hall conversations a year after hisgraduation. One rumor I heard had him busted forselling cocaine in high school, but his admissionwas guaranteed by his father's $2 million gift tothe University. Another version claims that he wasmerely friends with a drug dealer andand at onepoint helped his friend break into someone's houseto steal a stereo. (The dealer apparently had somedebts.) Either way, rumor has it that he gotcaught. Who knows the real truth...

Author: By Theodore K. Gidseone, | Title: Groovy Train | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...response to Harvard's admissions decision regarding Gina Grant, I wish to announce my own intention to rescind all promises and expectations of financial contributions to Harvard. As an alumnus and a member of the medical school faculty, I take a serious interest in the whole-someness of this institution. I am now appalled at the appearance of heartless and punitive rigidity in Harvard's choice to rescind Grant's admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant Deserves To Be Admitted | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...These bolts are clearly unfinished hardware to be concealed within the future foot bridge," Rizzo said in a letter to President Neil L. Rudenstine last month. "As an alumnus, I find these unfinished items offensive, particularly in such a prominent, highly visible entrance location," Rizzo wrote...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Architect Opposes Sackler Bolts | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

President Neil L. Rudenstine will present Lemmon with the award at a ceremony on April 29. The medal is "meant to go to an alumnus or alumna who has made a significant contribution to the arts," said Myra May-man, director of the Harvard University Office for the Arts...

Author: By Jessica A. Pepp, | Title: Jack Lemmon to Receive Arts Medal | 2/24/1995 | See Source »

...curling iron and, finally, a match. Ordinarily, the story might never have drawn attention outside the voyeuristic world of Usenet sex groups. But Baker gave his fictional victim the name of a real female student in one of his classes. When university officials were alerted (by an alumnus who spotted the story on a computer in, of all places, Moscow), they gave Baker a psychological evaluation and had him escorted off campus, apparently out of concern that he might be a danger to the community-not to mention the female student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SNUFF PORN ON THE NET | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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