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...only has University President Drew G. Faust commissioned a task force to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Harvard by 30 percent by 2016, but, more recently, she also signed the Campus Sustainability Pledge, which proved a major victory for Harvard’s environmentally minded students. In a letter to the Harvard community in late September, Faust highlighted the need to seek environmental reforms even beyond our own our campus. For instance, in describing campus expansion efforts across the Charles in Allston, Faust stressed her hope that Allston’s green example would serve as an example...
...Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska’s debut with the Boston Symphony. Attired in a dark-colored floor-length dress that was scintillating under the bright stage lights, Kovalevska strode gracefully to the left of the podium and nodded slightly to Levine before he struck the downbeat of the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s opera, “Eugene Onegin.” The young artist’s first entrance thirty seconds into the strings’ introductory tremolo was rather shaky, as if she had been caught off-guard. Although the orchestra tended to overpower...
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced Friday that the current letter grading scale would be replaced by a simpler pass-fail system, beginning with students who matriculate...
...current system encompasses nine categories at half-letter intervals from A+ to B- and also includes C, D, and F. In contrast, the new grading scheme—similar to those at Yale and Stanford—will categorize student performances as “Honors” (A+ to A-), “Pass” (B+ to B), “Low Pass” (B- to D), and “Fail...
...Knights' announcement a "publicity stunt." And many students say the plan for "invisibility" makes the Klan seem weak, not intimidating, and insist that no one on campus has any interest in entertaining the group's views. "Take our indifference," the Daily Mississippian's editorial board wrote in an open letter to the Klan on Sept. 16, "as the ultimate symbol of your failure...