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...equal votes. Even if we didn’t take the resident deans seriously as you suggest (and we do), they could simply outvote us. As another example, contrary to your statement, in disciplinary cases students are always allowed to present their side of the story, both in written form and by attending an Ad Board meeting, where students can make a statement and, if they choose, respond to questions. I could...
Despite the gloomy economic conditions, a group of 20 business-minded undergraduates found encouragement yesterday in the form of Albert E. Wenger ’90. The former president of the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us and current partner at Union Square Ventures—a firm with a diverse portfolio that includes the popular social messaging site Twitter—shared his entrepreneurial advice and experiences as part of a speaker series hosted by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum. “It’s all about getting started,” he said. “There...
...what economists call “carry trade”—currency arbitrage and speculative investment highly susceptible to liquidity crises. Whereas banking sector assets accounted for 96 percent of GDP in 2000, they were over 10 times GDP this year. Furthermore, external debt in the form of foreign deposits in Icelandic banks was over 20 times the government’s debt. Effectively, the banks had become too big for the government to protect.Despite the fact that countries like Switzerland and Britain have survived for centuries with a similar discrepancy between banking assets and GDP, the miniscule...
...President Lawrence H. Summers had intended to increase political diversity among the faculty, but Mansfield said he has yet to see similar attention from Faust.“Liberals speak about pluralism, but there is no sympathy for downtrodden conservatives at Harvard,” Mansfield said.Mansfield recommended a form of “mild affirmative action” for conservative candidates in hiring decisions to correct the imbalance.Wisse also said she supported such a policy and compared it to a situation in which the University was short of American historians on the faculty and actively sought them out.But Huchra...
...With a little help from those stinky, stuper-ruper Bears over in Rhode Island (help in the form of stinking it up, like it usually does) the Crimson could run the table and win the Ivy title...