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...some on campus. Yet, these criticisms notwithstanding, so many of its members end up in top firms in New York over the summer that they hold club reunions just to keep track of one another. But while HUWIB has achieved its stated goal, it falls into the troubling plethora of campus organizations that promote and sustain a culture of ubiquitous résumé-padding, and the overall trend toward premature migration to Wall Street. Any day of the week, you can find packed campus events sponsored by the Harvard Investment Association, Harvard College Consulting Group, Aspiring Minority Business Leaders...
Since the formal founding of the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department in 1972, Harvard has offered a plethora of courses and workshops on various East Asian societies and their respective histories . From the basic survey courses on China, Japan, and Korea that dot the Core Curriculum to advanced seminars in various regional dialects, Harvard has almost always provided an avenue for those who wish to study even the most esoteric of topics. For those interested in early Korean history, however, even Harvard’s seemingly unlimited academic resources have offered little in the way of a definitive curriculum?...
...example, or opting for artificial sweeteners instead of sugar to get the same satisfying sweetness without the offending calories. But new research suggests that the body is not so easily fooled, and that sugar substitutes are no key to weight loss - perhaps helping to explain why, despite a plethora of low-calorie food and drink, Americans are heavier than ever...
Given the plethora of campus publications that already exist, students might wonder whether Harvard needs another sex magazine—or any new publications at all. Our door boxes are stuffed with student-run publications on a range of topics, from admirable efforts at political-science commentary to social magazines (such as the now-infamous Scene). It goes without saying that different publications have different audiences, and naturally, some are better received than others. Despite the waxing and waning of magazines’ popularity, it says something positive about the state of the free press and entrepreneurial spirit on campus...
...suggest that the latest offering from Jan Tomasz Gross is garnering attention in circles way beyond those of academic historians. Gross has come to Warsaw's Entrepreneurship and Management Academy to promote his new book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, and the visible police presence and the plethora of TV cameras in the jam-packed hall make clear that the topic has aroused strong emotions...