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...student’s family or other background circumstances may help the FDO and other advisors in their efforts to help the student,” they write. “Such communication is at the heart of what we do here and is an important element of increasing the likelihood that students will thrive at Harvard...
...Summary Statement on Concentrations issued by the Educational Policy Committee in November 2005 provides additional background and explanatory information about secondary fields...
Presumably a potential employer would run a basic background search that would turn up Middlesex District Court records from the Quincy House student’s case. The student’s name is also online—and available for free—in the logs posted on the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) website. So even if the Feb. 24 arrest does “hugely compromise” the student’s future, we’re not sure whether that comes as a result of The Crimson’s decision. But we believe that...
...court records and assess the accuracy of our articles. And other newsgathering organizations should be able to verify—or second-guess—our reporting. Indeed, after the LSD arrest, the weekly Harvard Independent chose to follow up on our coverage—and to include more background information about the Quincy sophomore than The Crimson had initially provided. In order to thoroughly double-check our facts—in order to search court records or to interview the student’s acquaintances—it is necessary to know the student’s name...
...bill would permit illegal immigrants who were in the U.S. before Jan. 7, 2004, to apply for a three-year guest-worker visa, which could be renewed once if they paid a $1,000 fine and passed a background check. After six years, if they demonstrated English proficiency and paid another $1,000 fine and back taxes, they could apply for permanent residency, the first step toward citizenship. Laborers abroad could apply for the same visa, which in their case would be capped at 400,000 annually; at least 87,000 of those workers would be eligible to apply...