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Although the College Events Board and FYSC exist nominally to help the Fun Czar in planning campus-wide events, the Administration empowers the overstretched Czar with real control of all social programming. A case in point: The CEB is not allowed to enter into any contracts surrounding campus events or even have much to do with their scheduling. In years past, they have been told simply that certain events must occur each year, left only to devise the frilly details of the gatherings. The iron fist of social programming is entrusted only to recent Harvard undergraduates, as the administration feels...
...defunct Disney Singalong program than they did in increased funding for Yardfest artists. To compound the problem, this general wonkiness has been accompanied by an overarching ineptitude, from mismanaging security contracts to completely ignoring public relations. Since the post pays poorly and requires the fun czar to stay on campus while most friends move on, it seems unlikely that those drawn to apply face a choice between that spacious office in New York and a dank cubby in the basement of University Hall...
...University Hall might even begin allowing those undergraduates elected to lead social programming to have some real authority and input in shaping the year’s social calendar. While failure to enact these suggestions might not incite a revolution in the Yard, reevaluating a position that originally stimulated campus social life might combat the torpor that has recently characterized undergraduate involvement in campus-wide events...
Students heading to Harvard Hillel tomorrow may find themselves on national TV—in Korea. Of all visitors to campus, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) will be in town tomorrow to film a roundtable discussion at Hillel in which students share their experiences as American Jewish college students with Korea’s foremost public television station, which is creating a documentary on Jewish life in America...
...Straight-backed, in red lipstick and maroon-and-white polka dots, a sheer black veil slipping off her hair, Amva strides around the campus of Pesantran Kebon Jambu, which takes its name from the guava orchards that stood there before the school's mint-and-white mosque and tile-roofed dormitories. Born in the village to a family of respected kyais, or Islamic teachers, she learned her Arabic and the study of the Quran and the Islamic traditions at her father's pesantran. "My grandfather and parents always hoped someday I'd become a respected scholar," she smiles, pouring...