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...allowed upon request but not generally encouraged. The student decided to take his chances and traveled to Harvard in order to argue his case, but with no access to his dean or other administrators until shortly before his hearing, even these attempts at mounting a defense hit a wall amidst a cryptic and seemingly-biased procedure...
...awkward,” Schlozman says.Awkward or not, the trip and discussion highlight the way that art can be studied in varying degrees of effectiveness. In the dark of a Harvard classroom, where students view artwork on two-dimensional slides, perhaps no one would have distinguished the monkey amidst the other figures. But when students venture out into the world and experience art in its original form, they often gain entirely new perspectives.LIKE SHAKESPEARE FROM CLIFF NOTESIn the past, students in HAA graduate seminars, like Schlozman’s, have traveled abroad extensively, with excursions ranging from Belgium to Austria...
...want to be undermining community morale,” Faust said. “So we are going to figure out how to address this problem.”Faust also addressed an issue raised recently on Capitol Hill—the rising cost of higher education amidst ballooning university endowments.“[Financial aid] programs are very costly for us. You know we have a large endowment but that endowment funds programs and research across a university,” Faust said. “It’s not just a great pot of money that...
...Amidst a swirl of controversy, Power quit over the "monster" slur, but the campaign might have actually been lucky she left, since her departure came just before her Iraq comments got wide play. The personal insult was gratuitous and crude, but the Iraq statement threatened to undermine one of the central promises of Obama's campaign. No one expected Power to spew invective, but when your top foreign policy adviser tells an overseas interviewer that you do not really mean something that you have put at the center of your campaign, well, Chicago, you have a problem...
Rampant conjecture about academic standards, accusations leveled at the coaching staff, and debate over recruits have recently placed Harvard’s barketball program in the national spotlight and diverted attention away from the games themselves. Amidst mostly unwelcome attention, however, a basic reality has been overlooked. This season is not over yet.This weekend, the Crimson end the year at home against conference foes Brown (17-9, 9-3 Ivy) tonight and Yale (11-15, 5-7 Ivy) tomorrow night. Harvard suits up at Lavietes Pavilion following a deuce of losses in New York last weekend that began with...