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...Undergraduate Council can no longer fund alcohol with its Party Grants, but that doesn’t mean the party has to stop! Fifteen Minutes is here with fifteen parties you can throw with your party grant this week, as well as the items for which you should submit receipts...
...spotlight that seems constantly trained on financial careers and the issue of brain drain, Harvard graduates are not all aspiring to be i-bankers for i-banking’s sake. A corresponding “brain gain” trend is gaining popularity. For some students, this means completing the cycle in the most direct fashion—leaving Cambridge to apply their education in their respective cities, states, or countries. But many other students, both American and not, are exploring other ways to plug the drain.GOING HOME WITH A MISSION Mariam O. Fofana...
...fogey,” says longtime director Thomas G. Everett. “The band was quite disappointed, as you can imagine,” says Fasman. Columbia’s marching band wasn’t so sympathetic. “I mean, at the end of the day, there’s nothing I can do about it,” says Head Manager Morgan A. Robinson. “I felt bad, and I cried a little tear, but whatever.” Yeah, whatever, Columbia...way to uphold the First Amendment...
...present reinvention of the course evaluation system is a missed opportunity to make more meaningful alterations to the culture of feedback and pedagogical improvement at Harvard. Specifically, the reforms fail to address incomplete participation by both students and faculty, which remain the CUE’s Achilles heel. Evaluations mean little when they do not include a full sample of students enrolled in a course. For course-shoppers, this often creates a skewed perception of a class’s quality. For faculty and teaching fellows, this means that feedback is incomplete, making gauging their students’ experience difficult...
...interest rates low, and effectively financing the worldwide expansion. But, Tyson asked, "how long can they keep doing this?" The U.S. Federal Reserve gave a partial answer recently when it abandoned a five-month-old commitment to keeping rates low "for a considerable period"--a statement widely interpreted to mean that rates are headed upward later this year. That's a growth brake...