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Brand's innovation is simple yet powerful: while athletic eligibility rules have long placed a burden on students to maintain minimum academic performance, this is the first time that teams would be penalized for lapses. The new rules have the potential to change the dynamics of college sports, starting as early as next year. "It's going to force our coaches to take a look at the type of people they have in their program, and I think it will change how you recruit coaches," says University of Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart. "We don't want coaches who want...
...that politicians are punished by their constituents for supporting actions to help the poor. There is plenty of experience to show that the broad public will accept such measures, especially if they see that the rich within their own societies are asked to meet their fair share of the burden. Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that we worked together to heal the world...
Though the VES department may strike some students as inhospitable to non-concentrators, they certainly should not have to bear the burden of addressing all of Harvard’s art needs. But concentrating in economics shouldn’t cut off a student from opportunities for artistic expression, and searching outside of Carpenter’s concrete walls is often the best bet. Harvard does have many art programs to serve precisely those students who aren’t majoring in VES, but don’t want to give...
Lured by the promise of free 256 megabyte USB flash drives, over 800 students flocked to a speech by the President and CEO of the semiconductor division at Samsung Electronics at the Harvard Business School’s Burden Auditorium yesterday, though some were disappointed when the free, pocket-sized memory disks ran out early...
Still, the details of Hwang’s speech were far from the only reason that students arrived at Burden Auditorium en masse. Advertisements promising a free flash drive—a compact, pocket-sized device that can be attached to a computer via a USB port, and stores data in much the same fashion as an internal hard drive—was a major factor in some students’ decision to attend the speech...