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...there are three rounds of elections for each class. The first round occurs in the spring of junior year, the second one in the fall of senior year, and the last round during the spring of senior year. Within the Class of 2006, 24 Phi Beta Kappa members were chosen during the first round. The recent second round yielded in 48 members. Coakley estimated that about 100 more members would be chosen in the upcoming final round. In total, the Phi Beta Kappa members will represent 10 percent of their class. Coakley, also a senior lecturer in Near Eastern languages...
Francisco J. Perez ’06 doesn’t like statistics. As a Social Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, math is not exactly his chosen field. But his dislike has nothing to do with math. “I volunteer at Suffolk Correctional Center, and it strikes me every time that—well, I look at my demographic, and as a young black/Latino male, I have more chance of being there than being here [at Harvard],” he says. As the child of Dominican immigrants, raised in what he describes as the ghetto...
Criticisms of the UC poured forth on House open lists, and dining hall chatter was often about why the HCC had chosen an act so unexciting to the student body. In the wake of last semester’s Snoop Dogg cancellation and the Wyclef disappointment, a UC task force was convened to examine what had gone wrong...
...abroad, and to better understand other societies and cultures, the gift of this collection from Harvard to [Sun Yat-sen] has created an important bridge,” Cline wrote in an e-mail response forwarded to The Crimson by Brainard. According to Cheng, Sun Yat-sen University was chosen because it was the academic institution in China that could make best use of the material in the Hilles collection. The donation “will help them tremendously improve their teaching and research programs to the faculty and students in that university,” Cheng said...
...that will allow professors who have designed undergraduate excursions into the outside world to realize their plans. For the Faculty Innovation Fund Grant, professors from a variety of disciplines were challenged to devise trips abroad for students in their respective departments. Of the 31 proposals put forward, 15 were chosen to receive grants ranging from $2000 to $8000—and totaling $90,810—for international projects that include opportunities to have summer internships and research in South Africa, Greece, or China; to go on an archeological dig in the U.K.; or take a summer community-service course...