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...still room for race to be a factor in the college admissions process. However, it should cease to hold the dominant place it currently enjoys. Universities should recognize that, while race-based admissions are an effective way to guarantee a certain measure of diversity, socioeconomic-based preference is a better way to guarantee fairness and a meaningful range of experiences among their student bodies...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Smarter Affirmative Action | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...think the faster the better, especially for people who have to make travel arrangements,” said Undergraduate Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10. “It is integral that they are notified soon...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Libraries Reduce Winter Hours | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...campus. But it’s long past time for time for Harvard to ensure that “Green is the New Crimson” rings true not only in its labs and dining halls, but also in Sever and Emerson. We need more relevant courses, better-defined environmental tracks within the social sciences and humanities, and perhaps even a nonscientific alternative concentration to ESPP. For guidance, we can look to programs at peer universities. UC Berkeley’s Society and Environment program, for example, offers well-defined focus fields in environmental policy and theory?...

Author: By Zachary C.M. Arnold, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sustainability Beyond the Lab | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...friendly Harvard is of a school committed not only to reducing its ecological footprint, but also to producing the next generation of environmental leaders. This vision will never be a reality without big improvements to the College’s environmental curriculum. With these reforms, Harvard will not only better serve its discouraged nonscientists, but it will help answer what is perhaps the most pressing sociopolitical question of our time: how to build a more just and sustainable society in the years to come...

Author: By Zachary C.M. Arnold, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sustainability Beyond the Lab | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., the nation’s go-to location for public policy. But he argued that, “if you want an animated discussion of ‘large ideas’ about God, human destiny, Western civilization, modern art, the future of democracy, etc., you are better served in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Chicago’s Hyde Park than in New York...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bright Lights, Big Pity | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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