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...idea for the festival arose due to Peck’s exposure to another Ivy League institution; the Ivy Council. As a former member, Peck saw the collaboration of all these schools as an incredible opportunity to foster creativity among Ivy League students gone to waste. Now, disillusioned with the Council, Peck has taken the initiative himself to make this festival happen. Working over the summer with the aid of fellow Brown students Justin Slosky and Seth Pipkin, along with Harvard student Kyle A. Gilmore ’02, Peck organized the entire festival, securing the guest speakers and panelists...
...want to help foster alternative politics and alternative solutions to problems we face in society,” Williamson says. “I’ve always been involved, one way or the other, in what people call civic engagement...
...MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grant-making institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition...
SENTENCED. PAULA POUNDSTONE, 41, comedian; to five years' probation, six months of rehabilitation and 200 hr. of community service; for endangering her three adopted and two foster children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Poundstone, whose children are currently in state care, was barred from taking in foster kids again. She admitted, "My drinking helped to create a dangerous situation...
Though undergraduates can seek community elsewhere, residential living should act as an essential component of community at Harvard. Currently, Harvard students live together, but a true sense of residential community is rare. To foster more genuine and substantive interaction among students in each dormitory and within the College as a whole, Harvard must take aggressive steps towards improving the undergraduate residential experience...