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When news broke in June that Harvard might allow students who had been accepted under other schools’ binding early decision programs to apply to and enroll at the College, admissions observers warned that the very future of early decision hung in the balance. Critics envisioned nightmare scenarios where massive numbers of students would double-cross colleges and guidance counselors would be forced to take sides between students and schools. Despite a spike in sentiment against early decision, where students promise to attend a first-choice school in exchange for a December admissions decision, no one wanted Harvard...
...despite the widespread ambivalence toward early decision, no one responded positively when news broke this June that Harvard was strongly considering making a move that might undermine it. When NACAC voted to allow early decision candidates to file simultaneous early action applications, it sent barely a ripple through the admissions world and none whatsoever in the national media—the decisive NACAC conference took place just one week after the Sept. 11 attacks and was weakly attended. But it had dire implications for the early decision system. Theoretically, early decision schools should have nothing to lose if their candidates...
Despite the widely voiced qualms about early decision, Harvard took a beating in the media after the story broke. A College Board official called the idea “appalling” in the Boston Globe, and Penn’s dean of admissions told The New York Times he hoped Harvard would “see its way” to maintaining the status quo. Ironically, the same people that criticized early decision earlier took aim at Harvard for threatening the early decision system...
...ordinary chain link fence just won’t do at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). So when Harvard broke ground this summer on an expansion of Gund Hall, the GSD erected a barrier more befitting a modern art museum than a construction site. The treated plywood fence undulates in and out towards passersby on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets. Orange support posts both add color and denote caution. Gaps in the fence give the passing pedestrian multiple views of the puddles of water and mountains of gravel inside...
...Kickovers played a set that leapt without pause from song to song, featuring the majority of their tracks from Osaka, with a few new ones thrown in. Although surprisingly little dancing or moshing broke out in the crowd, their appreciation was clear. Alas, this is one of the tradeoffs of the intimate crowd—fewer numbers means people tend to feel more self-conscious and less likely to lose themselves in the anonymity of the crowd...