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Furthermore, Harvard’s relationship with Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) is a very productive one: Several students from the 2006 program have gone on to spend whole terms studying at the university. PUC deserves no more criticism for being a private rather than public institution than Harvard does. In addition, the Office of International Programs and other sources of funding at Harvard provide grants to reduce the $5,500 cost—which includes a package of tuition, housing, activities, and weekend excursions—for most participants...

Author: By Adam R. Singerman | Title: Summer Program in Rio Full Of Diversity | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

This year’s Harvard-in-Rio program lasted five weeks and cost 5,500 dollars—a price that covers almost a full year’s rent in Brazil’s cidade maravilhosa. Students are shuffled into Pontífica Universidade Católica (PUC), Rio’s private university that caters to the city’s affluent population, meaning that the program is often devoid of the striking diversity so emblematic...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait | Title: More to Life Than Harvard | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...last movie to outdraw a pornography film at UPenn was Airplane, which attracted 2100 people, according to PUC advisor David Vigderman...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Risky Business | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

...added that pornography films have only recently become the most popular PUC movies. "The best movies we've had have been Airplane, Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall and Sleeper," he said...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Risky Business | 3/23/1984 | See Source »

...feel defeated, but the ultimate battle is not with PUC," she said. "It's with the attitudes that prevail throughout the community that condone pornography." --The Daily Pennsylvanian

Author: By Peter R. Eccles, | Title: X-Rated Penn | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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