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...room between 2 and 3 a.m. the next morning. Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin said they could not comment on Smith’s status yesterday. Harvard spokesperson John D. Longbrake also declined to comment. Smith was friends with Kirkland House resident Chanequa N. Campbell ’09, the other student who has been linked to the Kirkland shooting, said Campbell’s lawyer Jeffrey T. Karp. Campbell’s diploma has also been withheld by the College, Karp said. Campbell received two letters from Harvard administrators on May 22 informing...
...faculty time—looms large over Gen Ed’s launch. The Gen Ed committee’s primary challenge has been to ensure that students have a wide enough variety of courses to choose from in the fall, according to former Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08—placing the burden on professors to develop more offerings. “We can’t have anything new unless colleagues send us forward something new,” says Gen Ed committee member Julie Buckler, who is also a Slavic...
...Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...depending on the company’s appetite for risk.But VaR modeling does not describe events that occur the other 1 percent of the time. In the New York Times best-seller “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” Nassim N. Taleb, who has held positions at Columbia, Wharton, and NYU, argues that these events—which he dubs “black swans”—are the most important determinants of the course of history. Models that fail to account for them are all but useless. Even...
...like it when a speaker thinks about her audience during a speech,” said Christina N. Peterson, whose daughter will earn a Masters in Public Policy this year...