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...Harvard was a boys’ club for centuries before women finally broke in. The disparities are not totally overcome; a forthcoming report from the Women’s Center on gender gaps in student group leadership suggests that men still tend to run the most “prestigious?? student groups, defined by students themselves. But female freshmen come into the Women’s Center in their first few weeks to find a welcoming space for them as women. Full equal status has yet to come, but everyday miracles like Women’s Week...
...culture that we live in. But, my fellow Harvard students, I’m not so certain that we aren’t part of the problem. In a time when parents hire $4,000 consultants from companies called IvyWise to get their toddlers into a “prestigious?? preschool, ask questions about the Ivy League matriculation rate of respective preschools’ graduates, have their children submit 12 to 14 applications, and have their hearts broken when the rejection letters come, we must ask ourselves whether we are perpetuating this perverted meritocracy...
Suddenly and inexplicably, the crowd lost its inhibitions and loosened its wallets. The bidding got competitive when Joshua J. Segal ’04 appeared on the catwalk dressed in a dark suit and chic yarmulke. The emcees enticed the crowd by dropping a reference to his prestigious??highly lucrative—summer internship at Goldman Sachs. After hearing that Segal would be making bank this summer, an aggressive girl in the back of the audience quickly snatched...
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