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...this type of success must necessarily be yoked to a high level of scrutiny, lest we cheapen true achievement. But treating Viswanathan with the same lack of judiciousness with which she herself treated McCafferty sinks this affair to a new low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students. Others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed a cocktail of overzealous parents and intense pressure. But such extrapolation should be braved...
...Such stories mark a broader trend of ambassadors appointed for patronage, not skills. From the Floridian property developer serving as Ambassador to Portugal to the Ohio industrialist turned Ambassador to Germany—who apparently compensated for his lack of German language skills with a $561,995 donation to the GOP—experience is no longer a prerequisite for appointment. Instead, fundraising, campaigning, and lobbying ability at home now determine who will represent America in foreign lands...
...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Prison Education Groups and the Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group co-hosted the panel, “Women and The Prison Crisis: Issues Facing Incarcerated Women in Massachusetts.” “The purpose of the panel was to reach out to the broader Harvard community,” said Connie E. Chen ’08, co-director of the Harvard Suffolk Prison Education Program. “The prison crisis is a huge problem in Massachussetts, and we want to spread awareness of it.” The speakers at the panel...
...bring a song or a story. I went and was enchanted.” After completing her dissertation in Celtic languages and literatures, Chadbourne looked to teach a course on Irish fairy lore for the Expository Writing program. Expos asked her instead to teach a much broader course on storytelling more generally. Rather than upsetting her plans, this request led Chadbourne to approach the medium differently, and opened up scholarly and creative worlds to her. She considers her ever-changing relationship to academia and the arts, saying, “I used to wonder, am I a scholar...
...Miss Rhode Island in 2003, and so that really got me thinking about the power of the organization,” Rogers said. “I really wanted an avenue to bring the message that we had been working on at Harvard to a broader audience.” Gray went on to be a top-10 finisher in the Miss America competition. Rogers’ performance wowed her boyfriend, Michael B. Keating, a first-year student at the Business School. “It takes such guts to speak in front of hundreds of people and put your...