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...Thayer map is not an exact representation of the Harvard student body, but it does reflect the trends. According to admissions data published in the Harvard University Gazette, 44 percent of the class of 2011 is from the Northeast (New England and mid-Atlantic regions), 20 percent is from the West, 16 percent is from the South, and 11 percent is from the Midwest (the rest are international). These numbers hardly match up with the actual population distribution in the U.S. As reported by the Census Bureau in 2005, only 18 percent of the population lives in the Northeast...

Author: By Caroline A. Bleeke | Title: Don’t Coddle the Coasts | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules, and don’t factor in a two-hour wash-and-dry endeavor every week. When it’s a question of wearing that same pair of dirty underwear for the third...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: A State of Detergency | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...would argue the exact opposite. Being able to have an office romance is a sign of equality. If you see yourself as equal and you don't see yourself as a victim, that is precisely when you can have a romance with a co-worker...To some extent, office dating is a sign of women's strength, not of women's weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Office Romance Get a Bad Rap? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...minute to play. His defender gives him space. Housman takes two dribbles, stops, pops, and nails a three right in the face of his opponent. It is a dagger, sending the Crimson to a narrow victory. For anyone watching the game last against New Hampshire, this sounds like an exact description of Housman’s big-time three that put the Crimson up for good last night en route to its 72-67 ousting of the Wildcats. But it isn’t. Travel back almost one year ago. Against Central Connecticut State on a cold winter night...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Familiar Finish for Housman in Victory | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Although the government does not keep exact figures, the Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education, a non-profit lobby group, found 52 hazing incidents reported in India's English-language media between June and September of 2007. The group claims that six suicides and three attempted suicides in the same period can be blamed on harassment, which they say is widespread at engineering and medical colleges - mostly, although not exclusively, among male students. Anti-ragging activist Shivam Vij, who launched the website stopragging.org in 2005, claims that nine out of ten students in India are subject to ragging, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hazing Worse in India? | 11/23/2007 | See Source »

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