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What costs the same as 110 nights at the Ritz, 640 Lacoste polos, or two matching Mini Coopers? A year at Harvard. Next year, it will be 3.5 percent more expensive. Here are some ways that FM thinks we will see a return on the increase. 1) Stockpiles of scabies cream at UHS. After this year’s little incident, they can’t risk another potential outbreak with the Class of 2012’s unclean members. 2) The MAC will close another six months for renovations. For what improvements? They’re not really sure...
Plus, if you thought the acceptance rate for normal applicants was small... think again. In comparison to the record low 7.1 percent rate this year, acceptance for transfers is miniscule (traditionally, about five percent). So really, transfers probably wouldn’t have gotten in anyway, and Pilbeam is just saving everyone’s time and energy, not to mention a lot of seniors’ sanity...
Harvard’s objective? Number one in the US News rankings. Princeton’s got nothing on a zero percent acceptance rate...
...British cuisine, many British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have had a difficult history, plagued with racial discrimination and economic disadvantage. The thriving British curry industry is not a side effect of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi upward mobility. A paper from the Department for Education and Skills found that just one percent of Bangladeshis and seven percent of Pakistanis held “high managerial or professional” jobs. Professor Tariq Modood, a sociologist at the University of Bristol, has published research that supports this; he found that Pakistani and Bangladeshi weekly earnings being the lowest of all ethnic groups...
...Cornell thoroughly outplayed the Crimson in every aspect of the game. But there was one facet that was particularly crucial to the Big Red’s handy victory—faceoffs. Although junior Nick Smith has made an admirable transition to the X and is winning over 50 percent of his faceoffs on the season as a whole, Saturday was an off day for the junior, who showed he still has some things to learn about his new position. Harvard sorely missed current Major League Lacrosse player John Henry Flood. As the No. 3 faceoff man in the country...