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...does not expect that the controversy over Summers’ January remarks on women in science or last month’s lack-of-confidence vote from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will significantly affect Harvard’s yield—the percentage of admitted students who opt to attend...
...Mondays, the Crimson would end practice with a lighthearted scrimmage, in which the goaltenders would move up to forward and an unlucky pair of skaters would play between the pipes. With their inexperienced teammates in net, most would gingerly shoot low and opt for finesse over power...
...Welch didn’t opt for a free ride to the postseason, nor would he ultimately join a team that would succeed on the strength of the accomplishments of those who had come before him. His legacy would be bottled up with the resurrection of a program whose glory days seemed to have long since past...
...cull out those in the third category, colleges like Dartmouth and Stanford require applicants checking the Native American ethnicity box to submit either a copy of their tribal affiliation cards or a letter explaining non-tribal Native American ties. Harvard should co-opt this procedure as well. If the ultimate goal of the College’s admissions process is to create as diverse a student body as possible, the College shouldn’t risk accepting applicants who are neither affiliated with a tribe, nor familiar with Native American identity. Presumably, there are other, similarly qualified Native American applicants...
...termbill; at the same time, however, they assured us that they would make sure to respond with concrete action to the clear student demand for renewable energy. The University has responded and has done so in convincing fashion, nearly doubling the amount that would have been raised by the opt-out termbill fee, and taking the additional step of establishing a $3 million Green Building Loan Fund to finance energy-efficient designs in new buildings...