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...While Harvard may be more encouraging of student startups today, there are still some improvements that could be made. As an Anthropology concentrator, Silverman says she feels that the information about entrepreneurship on campus is not always readily available to her. However, she is unsure about whether or not this is a pressing issue that the college needs to address. “I don’t feel like that’s been a barrier,” she says. “I feel like it’s just the way things have worked...
...Some students agree that entrepreneurship is not adequately presented on campus as a viable career option. While May says that he is satisfied with the level of support he receives from the College, he admits that more resources regarding entrepreneurship would be beneficial to students in general. “Maybe if career services made a push for start-ups being an alternative line of work, besides the standard consulting and i-banking,” says May. “I think that could be beneficial to standardize it as something people think about as their career track...
...Others believe that care should be taken to avoid excessive encouragement of entrepreneurship on campus, arguing that it could potentially suppress the drive and spirit necessary to be a successful entrepreneur. “Is entrepreneurship something that you should shove down people’s throats? Should I have been pursued as a key future entrepreneur? No,” says Silverman. “That’s something that I had to look out for myself, I chose not to, until the time came along when I was more interested in that...
...FlyBy didn't really "get" the senior gift video the first time we saw it. Sure, we got that a litany of senior "campus figures" (our own leader and design chair emeriti among them) seemed to be able to convince themselves of two contradictory conclusions over the course of about four minutes (three too many). We got that nearly-assassinated former UC presidential candidate Michael Koenigs was the best of the bunch for entertainment value. We even got that it's not the easiest thing in the world to cheese...
...proposing to teach.” PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 raised the possibility that “already overstressed demands on the infrastructure” would cause the University to divert resources from already existing artistic endeavors on campus. But Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literature and visual and environmental studies, stood with arms akimbo at the podium and sought to allay Lewis’ concerns. “‘Art is born of constraint, and it dies of liberty...