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...local Catholic university. That's just what soured voters on his first term: prosperity that did not seem to reach enough people. The problem is a trickle-down economic and political system that is still evolving from the dark, authoritarian past of the Rafael Trujillo era that left mere crumbs for social expenditures. Forty-five years later, the economy has dramatically diversified from its plantation foundations of sugar and coffee...
...that students are “self-centered,” for example, are probably not as helpful as concrete feedback about their involvement in campus activities. Information about said groups should also be treated with skepticism until it can be proved to be evidence of causation rather than mere correlation. Fortunately, the admissions office is used to dealing with this kind of subjective information all the time—in school reports, personal essays, and references—and has said that it would only act on the feedback were it to inform some kind...
...Kline said that it was unclear what fraction of students who skip are doing so out of protest. “An ‘unoffficial boycott’ seems to me [a] paradox,” Kline wrote. “How it is to be distinguished from mere absence, or laziness?” Both Frieden and Gates said that students might be confused by the change in format this semester since the tutorial has had far fewer lectures in previous years. This confusion may be a factor in student dissatisfaction, according to Frieden. But this dissatisfaction...
...seniors—one in five in the class of 2006—signed in last Sunday at Senior Bar, armed with nothing but a government-issued ID and a neon yellow punch card. A mere 65 made it through the first five events. Eventually there will be only a handful left. It’s Last Senior Standing, the garishly alcoholic offspring of Senior Bar and Singled Out. The definitely not-Harvard-affiliated Senior Bar Committee has organized the tourney (see www.seniorbar06.com). And from Sunday to Thursday, the participants brave financial and emotional costs ($8 for wine at Grafton...
...least the sort of men the school could be proud of having produced—and make us allies to a decidedly unmanly culture of permissiveness and moral relativism. If we ever hoped to be “men of substance,” instead of mere products of our decade, we’d have to cut our hair, find Jesus, and get to class on time...