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...April, the House Program Planning Committee (HPPC)—a 50-person body of students, faculty members, and planners from Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering—began meeting “to examine the mission and purpose of House life and to develop an architectural space plan for the House system,” according to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences press release...
...high-income backgrounds, as they are not eligible for federal assistance and must consider the costs of travel in their education budget. Consequently, there is little socioeconomic diversity among this pool of applicants. Visa fees need not serve as another obstacle to socioeconomic diversification. The fee hike announced in April is directed at improving the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), administered by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). The system is designed to observe and document the activities of international students—which is in itself a cause for concern. Excessive tracking systems will only increase...
...Applications to Harvard soared to a record 27,462 this year, eclipsing the previous record of 22,955 set last year. Only 7.1 percent of the applicant pool was admitted to the Class of 2012 in April, the lowest admission rate in the history of the College. When the admissions year concludes at the end of June, the yield on admitted candidates is expected to be about 76 percent (close to last year’s 78 percent). That this remains the highest yield among peer institutions is particularly notable because Harvard no longer has the advantage of early action...
...season—and the co-ed squad saved the best for last. The Crimson’s mixed team, led by seniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec, earned berths to two national regattas. After a seventh-place finish at the ICSA Dinghy National Semifinals at the end of April, Harvard came back the next weekend and issued a dominant team racing performance to take a surprising third at the New England Team Race Championship. “It was certainly the most pleasantly surprising happening of the whole spring,” Kovacs said. “We didn?...
...identified only as a 25-year-old nursing student from northern France - is condemned to play the role of symbol for the many forces that have seized her case as a major cause. The storm broke out last Thursday, when France's national media picked up on the unpublicized April 1 verdict annulling the couple's 10-month marriage on the husband's complaint that his wife's prenuptial assurances of virginity were false. The judge had reasoned that the wife's claimed virginity constituted "an essential quality decisive for the consent of her husband to wed." That, protestors argued...