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...Harvard, cooking usually means perfecting the ratio of milk to Cracklin’ Oat Bran in your bowl, so it’s no surprise that recent graduates often find themselves at a loss when faced with an actual stove and no Brain Break. A class offered by Harvard University Dining Services aims to change that...
...will at least be something. As announced in a recent letter by Dean of Harvard College Evelyn M. Hammonds, all students will be able to return to campus for College-led and student-initiated programming for the last eight days of J-Term. However, during the rest of Winter Break, Dec. 22 to Jan. 15, only “students with a recognized and pre-approved need to be on campus —including varsity athletes, international students, thesis writers, students conducting lab-based research and a limited number of other categories of students” will be allowed...
Given that the College will not facilitate programming for three weeks of Winter Break, it will again be up to students to arrange their own experiences during this time. To this end, it is often easier for people who are socioeconomically advantaged to self-create compelling J-Term experiences, as such experiences may include expensive travel. J-Term is a perfect occasion to spend an extended period of time in a foreign country, become immersed in the culture to a critical depth, and return to school with expanded horizons and a broader perspective. However, without financial assistance, this type...
Expanded J-Term programming facilitation would be a good idea, and we believe there is a substantial desire in the student body for it. Dean Hammonds’ message to the student body mentioned that, “Of the students who remained in residence during the Winter Break 2010 period, only 26 percent of respondents said they would like to have had some ‘fun,’ ‘creative’ programming available.” However, this statistic is misleading in isolation. The only people allowed to stay on campus this past...
...contingent of the liberal Revolutionary Democratic Party has drafted a bill to closely monitor and regulate the use of Twitter and Facebook in Mexico. The bill would make sharing information that helps others break the law or avoid it a criminal act. (The social-media companies themselves are not targets of the bill, just their Mexican users; Twitter and Facebook have warned their users to obey Mexican law.) The bill's sponsor, Norberto Nazario, says he wants to create an online police force that would keep abreast of the ways drug cartels and kidnapping rings are using the Internet...