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...Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said he largely attributes the changes in Harvard’s applicant pool to the new financial aid program launched by University President Lawrence H. Summers. He also credits nationwide demographic trends, such as the growing number of high-school seniors applying to college...
...phone rings. Only it’s not my cell phone, and it’s not electronic. It’s a real phone sound—something I haven’t heard since my high-school summer job at a tennis pro shop with my cheap boss who wouldn’t buy decent office equipment. The sound is coming from beneath the futon. The world slides into focus, and I realize that my roommates and I put the Harvard-installed, Hotline-surplus red phone under the futon so it wouldn?...
...remembered having conversations with Han early on in college during which they would remark how strikingly different their college experiences were from high-school. Han said she felt as though she did not belong at Boston College and wondered why. She credited her discussions with Hsu and to an even greater degree Fong’s article with crystallizing this sentiment and inciting her to action...
Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07 is a government concentrator in Adams House. He is spending his summer working at The Crimson Summer Academy, a new academic program for 30 motivated high-school students from the Boston area...
...Other tasks fall mostly to the women - Hand, Price and Ph.D. student Karen Roberts, whose father is a high-school geology teacher. Between them, they brush rocks, sort and label them, and treat fossils with a preservative. Everyone lugs rock-filled hessian bags to a pick-up point, from where they're eventually trucked to laboratories in Sydney and at Mount Isa's Riversleigh Fossil Centre. There, resident palaeontologist John Scanlon frees the bones by dissolving the surrounding limestone in dilute acetic acid. Since the vats were installed earlier this year, "I've just been hooked," says Scanlon...