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...administration approved over 93 percent of more than 1,400 applicants for room and board on campus during the College’s inaugural J-Term. But that left thousands of undergraduates—facing the longest winter break in recent history—without permission to stay in the Houses...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: J-Term Squatters To Face Ad Board | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

Students at Princeton recently expressed discontent with their school’s grade inflation policy, which limits the number of A’s awarded in each department to 35 percent...

Author: By Monika L. S. Robbins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students React to Cap on Grades | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...When someone is excited, it is hard to say they shouldn’t get an A,” Ozment said. He estimates that about 80 percent of his students have earned A’s over the past four or five years, all of which were “fully deserved...

Author: By Monika L. S. Robbins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students React to Cap on Grades | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...couple days ago, the New York Times reported that the student body at the University of North Carolina was 60 percent female. That leads us to ask this question: how would life at Harvard change if we had a 60-40 split...

Author: By Luke Z. Yarabe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lots and Lots of Ladies | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers are paid ten cents for each eighty-dollar jersey they make. Unfortunately, the NLC notes that this pay only “amounts to twenty three percent of the basic subsistence need for food, housing, health care, and clothing for an average sized family of four”. In such cases, a move against China’s human rights violations risks coming off as hypocrisy...

Author: By FRANK C. MALDONADO | Title: Firms as Diplomats | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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