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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...