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From 2002 to 2005, Yale—arguably Harvard’s most comparable peer institution along with Princeton—featured similar percentages, although Harvard’s minority enrollment figures were all slightly higher across the board. In the ’04-’05 school year, 7.6 percent of all Yale students were black, as opposed to just 5.0 percent of all recruited athletes...
...Faculty Council also approved changes that will spell out the College’s “amnesty policy,” which allows students to seek medical or police assistance for an intoxicated or drug-impaired peer without facing disciplinary action from the College...
...summer contribution persists. Thankfully, there is a fairly simple solution: the Financial Aid Office (FAO) could waive one summer’s contribution for students planning to work in an unpaid position in the public or community service fields. Such a system, which is already in place at other peer institutions, is at the heart of a proposal of spearheaded by students from the IOP and recently endorsed by the Undergraduate Council. We hope, however, that in working out the details of such a system, administrators will define “public service” as broadly as possible. Students...
...Faust “surveyed the experience of numerous peer institutions, most of which include a position of this type,” as part of her decision to create the position, according to her e-mail...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...