Word: peering
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...down interview at The Crimson, the new chief executive of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), Mohamed A. El-Erian, squelched speculation that the University would follow the path of peer institutions—including Yale—that hire outside firms to steer their endowments...
...members of the class of 2006 look forward to being ushered into life after college by world leaders, journalists, or other public figures, both Harvard students and those at peer institutions have expressed disappointment with their schools’ choices of commencement and class day speakers. One Harvard senior said he was unhappy with the choice of Jim Lehrer as this year’s Commencement Day speaker. “[Jim Lehrer] is an insightful journalist...I only wish we had someone more inspirational,” said Todd Van Stolk-Riley ’06 of this year?...
...this is true of students who are from other religious backgrounds but do not necessarily keep kosher, fast on Ramadan and abstain from alcohol, or worship the various Hindu deities. What I find most puzzling is that lack of religion among students is only endemic to Harvard and its peer institutions such as Yale. Seven out of 10 college students say that religion is important or very important in their lives, according to the national survey of college student attitudes conducted by Harvard’s Institute of Politics. The report even goes...
...Advising Programs Office (APO) received over 480 applications for next year’s 180 newly created peer advising fellow positions, Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere was “thrilled” to announce in an e-mail yesterday. “That’s a lot of applications,” said APO associate Brooks B. Lambert-Sluder ’05. “It’s pretty incredible.” In comparison, the number of applicants for the Prefect Program “varies from...
...does not soil his jumper. However, the availability of diapers in a pharmacy that caters specifically to college students promotes the idea that just anyone can be having sex and babies, with or without love, with or without marriage. Today’s teenagers are extremely susceptible to peer-pressure, and all they want to do is fit in. Teenagers see boxes of diapers in the CVS piled up to the sky, and they assume that diaper use—and therefore sexual activity—is acceptable behavior, and will probably make them “cool...