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...American step dancing. She decorates her room with colorful shoulder bags and scarves to combat what she calls the “drab and bleak” colors of Cambridge. She practices Wing Chun kung fu, co-founded and edits Harvard’s African Magazine, and received a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship...
Even with the smell, the three still couldn’t wait to get off work and eat together. Bakken worked at Mellon Financial, Mujalli worked at a tech start-up and Traverso worked on a research project. They would meet up after work to lift, then ate at Uno’s (all-you-can-eat Tuesdays) or raced home to the Foreman Grill...
Richard E. Freeman ’03-’05, a transfer student from Carnegie Mellon, posits that dissatisfaction is simply the nature of the beast, not a result of administrative negligence. “There is a lot of melodrama here,” he says. “Students criticize Harvard as a university, but the problems they cite are typical anywhere. They don’t realize this because they lack a different perspective...
Harvard is not the first college to implement a web-based e-mail account program for its alumni—Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, and other schools have had their respective programs for several years...
William Bowen, now president of the Mellon Foundation, first criticized athletic admissions in the Ivy League three years ago when he published The Game of Life, co-written by Mellon colleague James Shulman. The book argues that college sports were too intense, detracting too much from students’ academic obligations. Fitzsimmons says Ivy League administrators and admissions officers took an immediate interest in the issues the book raised, and initiated negotiations to elevate academic standards for athletes. “We have been very vigorously asserting that we raise the expectations of academic excellence,” McGrath Lewis...