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...only sit-down interview with The Crimson this semester, Faust said in February that “I certainly got an earful” from the Undergraduate Council on issues ranging “from recreational facilities to internship opportunities to social life.” But Faust, who has never overseen undergraduates as an administrator, voiced ambivalence about how to approach those issues...
...transparent. There’s no such thing as a purely on-campus issue anymore, now that online discussion threads like Harvard’s BoredatLamont or Brown’s Daily Jolt have elevated anonymous libel to a fully searchable art form. Every time a kid loses an internship because an employer found annotated bong-rip pics on a MySpace page, students clamor that their privacy has been invaded. At IvyGate, we deal with fallout all the time. But what are bloggers and journalists supposed to do when it’s the students themselves who put the material...
...HSCI also sponsors a summer internship program for undergraduates. Students who attended the institute’s first program founded the Harvard College Stem Cell Society (HCSCS) the next year, says HCSCS President Nicole Ali ’08. The group is not directly affiliated with HSCI...
...Largely, I went with the organization-kid tide at Harvard. I over-did extracurriculars and elbowed for internships. I joined Teach for America, which caters to organization kids just like Goldman Sachs does. But sometimes, I felt that sinking feeling as I did in the pool: The system is sick, because of the organization kid mentality. I overheard one student describe writing a thesis as “Hoopes-ing it up.” I saw one student cry with envy when another student won a Rhodes scholarship. I know someone who took a class hoping that...
...Congress is currently considering a "post-9/11" version of the bill with even greater benefits. The departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs jointly launched the Transition Assistance Program in 1989, and each branch of the military has since then added its own workshops. States help, too, with internship programs for wounded vets or assistance in launching businesses. Then there are the corporations - Home Depot, Union Pacific, Starbucks, Raytheon, Dunkin' Donuts, Merrill Lynch - that trumpet veteran-hiring programs with names like Operation Career Front...