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Furthermore, prestige-hungry schools like Harvard relentlessly seek to distinguish their faculty and students in significant part by professionalizing knowledge, strengthening alumni connections, and plucking the most promising youth from across the world, including its most troubled communities. Professionalizing knowledge concentrates the production and consumption of legitimate knowledge in the hands of fewer people. Strengthening alumni connections turns putatively meritorious students into social climbing graduates who climb as much, if not more, because of their connections as their merit. Plucking promising youth from troubled towns may advance a school’s prestige, but this individualistic approach does little...
...veterans—junior Michele McAteer and sophomore Becky Voaklander—will see the majority of the extra innings this weekend, but rookies Shelly Madick and Amanda Watkins will also be afforded the chance to distinguish themselves as the heir apparent...
...commits to expanding that dialogue to include those other institutional schedules that still reflect the preferences of deans and administrators on campus. Not only that, the UC seeks to distinguish collegiate life today from the antiquated schedules set generations ago for students who were living in a different era. Just as our work on Harvard College Libraries sought the input and involvement of the student body through surveys, future initiatives require the earnest effort on the part of the UC to translate student realities and student concerns to those people who run this College. Just as students shape their lives...
...legal expert reached yesterday—Harvard Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon—said that the law normally “does not distinguish between journalists and other people who publish information.” He said that he did not know the specifics of the case...
...course, the need for such a challenge goes well beyond any one sector of the population. Polls have shown a widespread feeling of disillusionment in both major parties, with the impression that both are beholden to special interests and that there is little to distinguish one from the other. That is, except for the perceived character of the candidates, which is the only way many voters these days judge who to vote for. The two-party system can only continue to weaken participation in the electoral process...