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...Enter interim President Derek C. Bok, who has decided to fund a comprehensive undergraduate writing study this spring. Bok’s project—which will hopefully provide much needed motivation for improvement in writing curricula across the University—is a worthwhile endeavor, and he should be commended for spearheading...
...result in suspension from athletic activity for a year. Osburn said in a telephone interview that the University of Georgia student newspaper had misinterpreted a statement suggesting that participating in those pools was tantamount to gambling. Still, she urged students to err on the side of caution when considering entering pools, saying that the NCAA does “not encourage student-athletes to participate.” While the Facebook pools are free to enter, contestants can win up to $25,000 for submitting the best predictions for how the 65 teams in the NCAA’s annual...
...least one Crimson basketball player—have joined March Madness pools on the Facebook. Although the Harvard men’s basketball team will not be playing in the NCAA tournament, rules discouraging gambling on college sports still apply. And while the Facebook pools are free to enter, contestants can win up to $25,000. Winning that money, according to the NCAA, might constitute gambling. “It is a violation for student athletes, coaches, as well as administrators to participate in bracket contests for monetary benefit gain and sports wagering,” NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn...
Andrew K. McCollum ’06-’07, Yan Zhang ’07, and Ameya A. Velingker ’10—all members of the Harvard Computing Contest Club—flew to Tokyo this weekend to enter the 31st Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest, which attracts college technophiles from all over the world...
...selfish decisions not only disenfranchise smaller states, but they vitiate the entire electoral process. We hope that at least some states reconsider. The primary election process has traditionally been the way in which candidates were introduced to and vetted by their constituencies. Candidates could make well-considered decisions to enter the presidential race and declare their candidacies just before the New Hampshire primary without sacrificing much of a head start. If primaries are all early, however, candidates will need to build up their appeal and bank accounts long before the primaries start, pushing the campaign season far earlier. This trend...