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...group. She has juggled all this while working as a WHRB radio host and as a member of The Harvard Advocate’s poetry board. And she will graduate tomorrow with an array of accolades—a Hoopes Prize for her creative-writing thesis, induction into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and a George Peabody Gardner Fellowship, which will fund a year of “purposeful travel.” At the final interview for the Gardner fellowship, Klein says she squeaked, headbanged, and drummed on a table, to mixed reactions from her interviewers...
...terms of what is important to people who are graduating—Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which he won jointly with his wife, came in 1990 for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. According to Yiting Shen, a member of the KSG Class of 2007, the selection...
...this, the final stretch of their lives as Harvard College students. For a select portion of the class, a last chance at one of undergraduate education’s greatest honors turned out to be their best. In ceremonies to be held today, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will acquire 91 new members, increasing the total number of this year’s PBK graduates to 163. Invitations to the honor society are first extended in the spring of every academic class’ junior year, at which time 24 inductees are named. In November, an additional...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...classmates who enlightened me with their many talents, attitudes, and viewpoints. And in those explorations with my teachers and my peers, I discovered the first hints of what I found meaningful. I realized that my definition of “doing well” could mean induction into Phi Beta Kappa, but that it could also mean learning a cultural dance whose name I could barely pronounce for Ghungroo, the South Asian dance show, or working with Undergraduate Council members to bring a student voice to the Curricular Review, or engaging in a Moral Reasoning section discussion on the justification...