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...policy, but that is not a reason to deny it to anyone. The goal of financial aid should be facilitating attendance, not condemning irresponsible spending. After all, in most cases, students are financially dependent on their parents, and probably have little say in how their parents spend. No matter what parents make, if they prefer cars and flat screen televisions to paying tuition, that may only be reflected in the total height of the mountain of loans their child accrues—something Harvard should try to prevent at all cost. And there are many “legitimate?...
...years ago I’d say I was one of you. I didn’t know the difference between an epee and a foil or much less care for that matter. And then it happened...
Disconnected links in brain may cause dyslexia A Harvard study has suggested a physical basis for dyslexia. The team mapped the brains of six sufferers of the genetic disorder periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), who show many of the symptoms of dyslexia. A normal brain has grey matter or nerve cells near its surface and white matter which connects the grey matter deeper inside. The team found that the brains they imaged were more disordered. They posited that this was the cause of reduced fluent reading skills.The study was led by Harvard Medical School professor Christopher A. Walsh, Beth Israel Deaconess...
...Harvard students should readily accept. “Being realistic” is a cop-out. Only by pressuring the administration to do something “unrealistic” can change actually occur. Most people here care about the UC. People swear the UC doesn’t matter, yet countless numbers of people end up writing editorials about it. We want it to make a difference. But, like the debate I moderated, these campaigns ended up being more about personal attacks than the future of our school. We found ourselves not caring about who ended up in charge...
...complicated those feelings could become. That was the year Iris Chang published her seminal book, The Rape of Nanking, about Japan's brutal occupation of the Republic of China's capital in 1937. After reading about the wartime genocide during which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died in a matter of weeks - events commonly referred to as the Nanjing Massacre - I felt a crushing sense of shame...