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...resign his seat on the Small Business Committee—the last committee seat he held—yesterday. Jefferson, a graduate of the historically-black Southern University, came to Cambridge in the fall of 1969, overlapping his time at the Law School with future Rep. Thomas H. Allen (D-Maine) and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 (D-N.Y.). Jefferson has retained strong ties to the University since he graduated: his three daughters—Jamila E. Jefferson ’94, Jalila Jefferson-Bullock ’97, and Jelani F. Jefferson...
...looking forward to spending many years sleeping on floors with no money,” says Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07 of his immediate future. But his friends believe he will thrive in his creative projects in the real world as much as he did at Harvard. Ravishankara’s online video shorts have gained him minor fame, and his movies have been featured on MTV’s college network. Now, as he heads out into the real world, he’s set on making it in the film industry. This year?...
Harvard’s rhetoric regarding legacy is illogical (though, to its credit, grammatical). On the one hand, University officials argue that “legacy admissions are integral to the kind of community that any private educational institution is,” as then-President Lawrence H. Summers phrased the party line. According to this logic, alumni are more likely to contribute to their alma mater (financially and otherwise) if their children are admitted to Harvard. For a long time, I myself found this argument compelling. My parents are not Harvard degree-holders, but I have benefited from scholarship...
...Economics, with 254 concentrators, fared only slightly better than government on the survey, with a mean score of 3.19. According to the department’s chair, James H. Stock, economics scored similarly on the College’s official senior survey last spring—“near the bottom but ahead of gov and biology...
...over the past week, after all academic obligations had evaporated, the partying and debauchery of senior week was simply an alcohol-enhanced version of the same crazy, energetic state of affairs that seemed to have been the norm over the past four years. As Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 mentioned in the Class of 2007 yearbook, everything here, especially from an undergraduate’s perspective, is experienced at a “high baud rate...