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...establishing the principle of giving to your alma mater," said Nancy Couch, director of special programs for the Harvard-Radcliffe fund...
Some Homecoming. The Adelphi Kick Line, performing a risque half-time routine to Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" in the Styles Field mud, had a better day. The three courageous members of the Adelphi Chorale Society who croaked their way through a painful rendition of their alma mater had a better day. The last-place New York Islanders from Uniondale didn't make the playoffs, but they probably would have had a better day if they...
...shame that John Larew was disappointed by his visit to my alma mater, Duke University--if he was indeed disappointed. He apparently had hoped that the addition of hundreds of bright youngsters from New York and the rest of the Northeast would provide a pocket of tolerance in the "cultural desert of central North Carolina." Instead, he found white and Black students not living together or associating much with each other, and heard some bigoted remarks from members of (evidently only one) fraternity. The outraged Mr. Larew then wrote an article in The Crimson explaining why he is glad...
...rent-control laws to raise rents and "gentrify" apartments, worsening the affordable housing crisis in Cambridge. We also note that Harvard was recently in the news for welding over its heating grates to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. When can we expect to see our alma mater becoming part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, of affordable housing and homelessness...
...result of the gap between Harvard's predominantly case-based curriculum and those of other major business schools, B-School doctoral students often find that their alma mater is the only option for a career in business academia. Many B-School professors completed their doctoral study at Harvard; but at other schools, fewer Harvard MBA's join the faculty ranks. Harvard students' excellence in case research is unquestioned, say other business school professors, but their potential for scholarship in a non-case atmosphere is limited...