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...rankings, they hoped Harvard’s new financial aid initiative was allowing more students to consider applying. Another issue that was addressed by the survey was the mental strain of the application process, with 61 percent of the 9,000 college applicants surveyed saying that their stress level was “high” or “very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility as a bulwark against stress, while Pilbeam said that the strains of the admissions process...
...from No. 3 Nguyen, No. 5 freshman Will Guzick, and No. 6 freshman Alexei Chijoff-Evans.HARVARD 6, CAL POLY 1The Crimson had no trouble taking care of Cal Poly on its home turf on the first Saturday of spring break, winning 6-1. Given that the Mustangs play at the level of a typical Ivy league opponent, the win was positive indicator of how Harvard might deal with upcoming challenges.The Crimson swept the doubles point and won four of the six singles matches in straight sets. The only loss came at No. 2, where Chris Clayton lost in a super-tiebreaker...
...city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article in the Boston Globe described the process of recruitment as a flurry of job fairs, personal appeals, and travel crisscrossing the small island nation. “If you have a problem, we’ll take...
...next two years, I hope that its underlying theme—the education of responsible citizens—is not forgotten by University Hall (or professors). The best example of this new curriculum would be Harvard’s involvement of its students in its own government, from the level of the Ad Board down to public forums about gym hours. I hope Dean Hammonds will do everything necessary to create that culture in University Hall...
...while top guns like McAuliffe cajoled, spun and whipped up the crowds in Waco and Austin, the outcome was really up to the foot soldiers at the grassroots level. At one precinct outside Austin, nine of them spent the entire day in an exhausting duel with 16 Obama representatives to choose from amongst themselves two delegates to join more than 7,000 others at the Texas state convention in June, where the 67 delegates headed to Democratic National Convention in Denver in August will be finalized...