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...quite a shock—sharing bathrooms with the opposite sex,” she recalls. “In my country you have the female dorms and male dorms, but here you had an integrated dorm. It was a memorable moment finding that...
...finally, the last method of campaigning—and the most personal one—found candidates running around campus, knocking on every single dorm room and introducing themselves. They were hopeful that their broad smiles and cute laughs, combined with a few good ideas, might help swing a few votes over to their side. The presidential campaigns readying for this week’s vote would do well to remember that, group endorsements and professional-grade websites aside, all politics are personal, and nothing works better than pounding the pavement...
...While his opponents flog proposals for Administrative Board reform or more campus social space, Koenigs has made a signature issue out of housing small animals, such as ants or baby chickens, in dorm rooms...
Northeastern isn’t building a new dorm after all. MIT is slashing 10 to 15 percent of its spending. At Harvard, President Drew G. Faust wrote a letter.Her gist was simple: Harvard is not immune. Thanks to economic reality, colleges across the country have had to make painful financial decisions, and the world’s richest university has a proportional amount to lose. Yesterday, the administration announced a 22-percent decline in Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment over the last four months—the sharpest drop in history. Worse yet, Faust predicted continued gloom...
...Even though he's only 24, this isn't Kopko's first education-related business. When he was a freshman at Harvard, Kopko hired a maid to tidy his dorm room and soon had friends asking how they could do the same. Sensing a good business opportunity, he started DormAid. When the Harvard Crimson heard of the business, the staff wrote a scathing editorial. "They said it's a service that divides classes into the haves and have-nots," explains Kopko. "At the time, I was upset. But looking back, the Crimson did so much for me, I should send...