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...your hair. You can’t even imagine it.”“There’s no excuse not to leave campus,” says Peter F. Hedman ’10, the club’s vice president. “Our main goal is to get people OUT. It’s pretty hard to get Harvard students to leave...it is possible, though.”The Outing Club provides students with “anything you would want for backpacking, plus snowshoes, skis, kayaks” as part of their gear...
...receives e-mails from users seeking advice about college selection.The results speak for themselves. Since the Web site’s launch, it has already garnered a base of 24,000 students. And not only is the number of users impressive, but the program seems to achieve its intended goal: according to Shah, a 200-point increase in total score is typical over the length of the course. THE “MATH” TO SUCCESSOne of INeedAPencil.com’s success stories is Evan M. Kendall, currently a junior at Sharon High School in Sharon, Mass...
...asserts that its capital campaign is open-ended and will produce valuable funds even if the purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn never materializes. But this logic fails to consider that, while collecting $6 million from recession-pinched alums for the clear goal of a building purchase is difficult enough, trying to raise the same amount with only a vague appeal to “social space” would be flatly impossible...
...personal” e-mails soliciting their services as paid fundraisers for the capital campaign the UC will launch over the summer to raise approximately $6 million in no fewer than 16 months. Given the scope of the project and the current economic climate, this lofty goal seems highly unrealistic. However, anything shy of this target will likely be insufficient to complete the expensive purchase. Exactly how much is needed is still unknown, as the sale price for the building has yet to be determined, even though one would have hoped that an elementary sense of prudence would have kept...
...local populations with appropriate prevention and treatment, and reduce overall illness and deaths. The Google Flu Trends service, which was launched in the U.S. in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is now working with Mexican officials to track search trends in that country. The goal is to help authorities discern whether and where the disease is spreading, getting worse or starting to subside...