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...tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees have Harvard degrees, which Maats says grants them “instant credibility.” For a mere $75 an hour, a student can get tutored in a tough academic area, hone resume-writing skills, or even practice college interviews...

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tutoring and Test Prep, With Just a Dash of Condescension | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Call it the new fratiquette, but these weekly civility sessions are just a small part of a growing reform movement led by SigEp, the country's largest fraternity. As colleges continue to crack down on binge drinking, hazing and general hooliganism, some fraternities are redefining the Greek experience in order to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frats Get a Manners Makeover | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...great-grandfather, S. Robert Stone, was in the Class of 1920, making him one of the first Jews to come here after they lifted the “Jewish quotas,” and one of the last to come here before President Lowell started using other techniques to crack down on our cheating kind. My great uncle Dick once told me about how he was in Expos with Henry A. Kissinger ’50. “He was a real first-class jerk; thought he knew everything,” says stoic old Uncle Dick. My paternal...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To My Future Wife | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

While it may be Hamri’s first crack at directing movies, Lathan is a well-known veteran in the African American cinema market. She has come a long way since she played the gauche tomboy in “Love and Basketball.” As a basketball star, she was young, vigorous, rough-and-ready. As Kenya the corporate guru, she is mature, graceful, and sophisticated. And in both parts she allows her character’s hidden sensitivity to subtly, but clearly, shine through...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something New | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...says.“We didn’t intend it to be used for faculty to catch 18 year olds with Coronas in their hands,” says Hughes.Other colleges around the country, however, are not turning a blind eye to the power of Facebook to crack down on underage drinking and other illegal activity.Four students at Northern Kentucky University were “fined, put on one year probation, and were forced to attend a class about the dangers of binge drinking” after they were found to have broken rules against drinking in their dorm...

Author: By Adam P Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Much About You Is Out There? | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

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