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It’s all about recruiting, isn’t it?The arduous process of convincing talented high school athletes that Cambridge is the best fit for them is an often-debated topic when it comes to sports at Harvard. Dialogue on the matter ranges from Harvard’s incentives for prospective student-athletes—or, without athletic scholarships, the lack thereof—to the controversial “weighting” of the admissions process.But the varied careers of three men’s volleyball team members illustrate that recruiting can be just the very...
...expand the faculty, it’s actually quite hard to expand the faculty well,” he said. After eight weeks at Harvard, Casey said he is impressed by the intensity of faculty recruitment, which he described as a “longer and much more arduous process” than that at Brown. “The process by which the Faculty here scour internationally for opinions about rising scholars is an extremely intense and intensive process and the burdens that places on our Faculty is quite palpable,” Casey said...
...DREAMS COME TRUE?Yet the work doesn’t end with the completion of a screenplay. Indeed, many of the writers have no hope that their individual script will ever get made.Once the work is polished, students with their hopes set on Hollywood must begin a long and arduous process of submitting their work to production companies—not just for the success of an individual film, a near impossible task in a market perpetually saturated with scripts, but in the hopes of getting noticed and getting a regular job.Oliver just hopes that writing a good script will...
...happen to much in Harvard Square,” Pappas said. “It’s kind of tiny.” Waitresses at Cambridge, 1, located next door to the soon-to-be ice cream store, complained that throwing away their trash has become an arduous task since the space next to them was occupied. They used to leave garbage bags in front of the empty storefront overnight and the garbage collectors would pick them up in the morning. “Now we have to run out when the trash car comes in the morning...
...criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur because they are reactionary. This means the overall process is slow and arduous. For instance, Congress’ declaration of genocide in Sudan was not enough for the University to reconsider its portfolio—six months of pressure from a mobilized campus was needed to put the bureaucratic wheels in motion...