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...slight paunch and wire-rimmed glasses, Bhagat looks much more like an overworked investment banker (in fact he is one, and has been for 15 years) than a best-selling author (which he has been for the past four). The success of his first book, Five Point Someone, a campus novel following three best friends at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, took him by surprise. "I didn't have the baggage of other Indian authors," he says. "I just wanted to write a fun book...
...Friday afternoon at Key's alma mater, psychology student Michael Hempseed is rushing off to his part-time supermarket job, while elsewhere on campus a large portion of the student body has begun a raucous, migratory end-of-semester party. The days of universities as hotbeds of political dissent are over - in New Zealand, at least. Generally speaking, the main concerns of today's students are drinking and study - in that order, says Hempseed: "It feels like we're missing out on something." The 23-year-old will be voting Labour for two reasons. One, the economy will need special...
...CORNELL (3-3, 1-2 Ivy)This is a pretty boring game featuring a pair of mediocre teams, each riding a three-game losing streak. So, in sticking with the Halloween theme, I have made my pick based on which school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom...
...concerned about the Harvard Salient’s publication of Danish cartoons considered offensive by many in the Muslim community. According to an e-mail from Dean Kidd provided by an editor of the Salient, Dean Kidd expressed her concern that “some segments of the campus and surrounding communities” might become “dangerous” in response to the publication of the cartoons. This point that was perceived by many as being inherently distrustful of Harvard’s Muslim community and a snub against the Salient’s legitimate right...
...hours after Gore’s speech and a few hundred yards to the south: the unveiling of Harvard’s revised master plan for Allston. While the new plans certainly have their issues, the revision reflects a desire to make green space the hallmark of the future campus. “The new plans are such a demonstrable example of thinking of how important the land is and how important nature is,” says Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief planner for the Allston initiative. “To take what was once marshland...