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...disgruntled students who have been forced to jump through the hoop that is Harvard’s mandatory freshman writing course have come to this conclusion. This week, a Crimson investigation revealed that students are not alone; many systemic problems are festering within the Expository Writing program, from dissatisfaction amongst preceptors to a lack of interest on the part of faculty and administrators to a dearth of funding.These problems are too large for quick fixes and stopgap measures. Instead of pursuing reforms such as changing the program’s leadership, increasing funding, forcing indifferent professors to pay attention...
According to Hitwise, as of last week, the MySpace domain is one of the most visited domain amongst U.S. Internet users, accounting for 4.92% of all Internet visits. At its peak in June of this year, the site accounted for 7% of all Internet visits. Meanwhile, Facebook has been increasing steadily, currently taking the position as the ninth most popular domain in the U.S., accounting for 1% of all Internet visits. Even though both sites - being within the top 10 of all Internet domains - are somewhat ubiquitous, demographic and psychographic data on users indicates that there are some unique audience...
...Then we lifted to walk through them, and we finished the race with a 36 or so [stroke rating] for the last minute and a half [to] two minutes.”On the lightweight side, Harvard’s first varsity entry finished 12th overall and seventh amongst college entries with a finishing time of 15.18.40. Princeton finished first of all the collegiate lightweight crews with a time of 14:27.33, and Navy, Cornell, Yale, and Princeton’s second lightweight varsity boat rounded out the top five.“It was a decent...
...Olympic Games are the definitive celebration of athletic excellence, but the quadrennial event has become a nexus of political and social protest as much as a who’s who amongst the world’s best athletes. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, held in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, proved the ideal setting for public dissent. And the U.S. Olympic crew, made up entirely of Harry Parker’s varsity eight from Harvard, became the face of the repugnant hippie undercurrent the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wanted to stamp...
...added that fields of study popular amongst conservatives—including military history and literature and politics—are underrepresented in universities...