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...opportunities to interested students; it is entirely another to create a disturbing subculture of hyper-competitiveness that destroys the very foundation of the liberal-arts education Harvard claims to offer. And the devastating consequences of rejection can be damaging to one’s mental health—a concern not often realized by the eager droves of applicants who dive into the process without considering the real impact of the application process on their personal lives...
...meeting with the Harvard Allston Task Force on Monday night, Allston residents erupted in anger and frustration over the university’s ambiguous plans regarding Allston development progression. In particular, residents expressed concern over Harvard’s continued acquisition of property while it has simultaneously enacted plans to slow the building of the new science complex. Residents are worried that a slowing pace of construction in Allston will mean leaving these purchased properties vacant—preventing other businesses from entering the area. The university has already slowed its purchase of raw materials intended for use in later...
...There is a lot of concern about the rising cost of education, and especially at Yale, our goal this year was to keep the rise in tuition, room, and board as low as possible,” said Caesar T. Storlazzi, Yale’s Director of Financial...
Harvard College prides itself on a diverse student body, a restless social conscience and concern for the less fortunate, and, of course, a boundless tolerance for all cultures, creeds, and sexual pastimes...
...contrary, many did not conform to that benevolent stereotype. Many contributors to the Eliot e-mail list feigned outrage that “political correctness” could impede upon their Housing Day festivities. Others dismissed her concern as baseless or even insulting to other groups who have to endure apparently more hurtful discrimination. One respondent even marshaled statistics to demonstrate the factual basis for the association between Italians and organized crime. Many did not eschew ad hominem attacks—or harassing phone calls, angry personal e-mails, and judgmental stares in the dining hall...