Word: problem
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...beginning of the semester, the folks in the admissions office caught their high-tech computer system playing tricks with them by scrambling the names of alumni in the database with the names of applicants. And that was not the first problem they have had. "We have a computer that has confused twins, but to my knowledge we have never done the wrong decision. But if we have some terrible mistake, it will come from the computer," Lewis warns. The office takes a variety of precautions against computer errors. Each applicant has a personal folder with interview reports and other more...
...actual admissions oversights go, Lewis says the office doesn't have any problems. "We may be wrong, but we're never careless," Lewis maintains. "All I know is we admit people and they show up and live in dorms and are your roommates. Most people pay tuition. It works out okay," she jokes. However, sometimes Harvard will rescind an offer if something drastic happens post-decision. The most famous case was Gina Grant, whose admission offer was revoked in 1995 after the office learned of her 1991 manslaughter conviction for killing her abusive mother. Most instances are less lurid--plummeting...
...principle, why there should be any problem, provided that...the academics can handle it sensibly and be able to deal with the narrow nationalisms that can exist, including, sometimes, [with] the donors. That can be a problem when a donor says [for example], this has to go to a Greek-loving Greek or a Turk-loving Turk," Alexiou says...
Maybe the undifferentiated mass of "work" we always talk about is the real problem. Where is the "learning from discussions with others" touted in those viewbooks? Does anyone ever carry conversation beyond section? When is the last time you got into a discussion with a roommate over reading for a class you don't have in common, or even one you do have in common? Hey, when is the last time you talked about anything with your roommates? Harvard often seems like an intellectual wasteland...
...example, undergraduates can turn to their House tutors, the Bureau of Study Counsel, peer counseling groups or UHS when they have a problem...