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...position as an insider among insider candidates appears to have been a huge asset in this race. He is the chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which has traditionally been a stepping stone from which to launch a successful presidential campaign. He is the fifth SAC chair to be elected in the last seven presidential elections, according to UC Treasurer Ben W. Milder...
...fifth SAC chair to be elected in the last seven presidential elections, according to UC Treasurer Ben W. Milder...
After tourist season ends, another Math 55 ritual begins. Students may have more room to sit down, but the next few weeks will be anything but comfortable. It’s a game of “Survivor”: Outwit, Outplay, Outmath. Before the fifth Monday of the term, students who can’t seem to stay in the game start dropping like flies...
...tally of last year’s drop-off: “Last year, we had 51 students the first day, 31 students the second day, 24 for the next four days, 23 for two more weeks, and then 21 for the rest of the first semester after the fifth Monday...
After an almost unprecedented shutout in the stiff competition for the 32 Rhodes scholarships awarded to Americans last year, Harvard students rebounded with a vengeance, snagging over a fifth of the scholarships awarded for 2007. As prestigious as the scholarships are, however, they do not boast an innocent history. When Cecil J. Rhodes died in 1902, he left behind the endowment that funds his namesake scholarships to this day and a legacy of exploitation in Southern Africa, where he made a fortune mining diamonds. A champion of British colonialism, Rhodes supported military expansions of British influence in Africa, earning...