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...Students familiar with Joo in rigorous science classes recalled her likability...
Indeed, we hope that students here in the summer might use the closure of the MAC as an opportunity to go outside and see more of Cambridge and Boston. Summer is a rare, welcome gap of time in which exploration off familiar paths is possible. It seems a waste of this opportunity to seclude oneself in a building with other Harvard students during free time. During winter, students have no choice other than to batten down the hatches and stay indoors at all times. Summer is a season to be outside and now, perhaps, to become better acquainted with...
...would benefit from the DREAM Act. In 2006, there were at least 10 unauthorized migrant youth at Harvard College. I personally know of at least half a dozen. Unauthorized youth are the most visceral representation of what is wrong with contemporary migration policy in the United States. For anyone familiar with this aspect of the migration debate, the stories of unauthorized youth are ubiquitous: 65,000 unauthorized youth graduate from our high schools every year. They are brought to this country at a young age; some arrive before they can even remember living anywhere else. The struggle of unauthorized youth...
...often “larger than life.” “I like to try to be hokey, especially for the kids,” Miller says. Accordingly, the tricks performed—cards going blank, disappearing coins and rope tricks—draw from the familiar canon of magic deeds. The mixed audience, made up of both Harvard students and local families, dictates a wide-ranging spectacle. “We try to keep it fun for everybody,” Miller says. “We don’t tell any dirty jokes...
...next week. Currently serving his second term as a Boston city councilor at-large, Yoon is the first Asian American ever to hold that position, and the first to run for any public office in Boston. Despite the historic nature of his campaign, few of the students interviewed were familiar with his platform before yesterday’s event. Attendees, about two thirds of whom were Asian American, were divided over the importance of Yoon’s heritage. “It’s huge,” said Allison J. Rhee, a Northeastern student attending the event...