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Similarly, Glenda R. Carpio, associate professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language, notes the occupational advantages of having her beagle, Placido, around at her office in the Af-Am Studies Department. “As a writer, I appreciate having someone sit at my feet, but then insist on taking long walks,” she says, adding that she always comes back to her work refreshed and refocused...
More commendable than mere success is the ambitious pursuit of excellence above and beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study...
...chose him, he retreated into self-deprecation. “I figure he made a mistake and thought I was somebody else,” he said. Humility was one thing, I told him later, but come on. Before I had flown to Washington, I sat down with Andrea R. Flores ’10, who was considered likely to announce her UC presidency bid just as FM was going to press. Andrea is short, curly-haired, and surprisingly frank. The etiquette in the Harvard political scene is very much don’t ask, don’t tell...
Alexander R. Konrad ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...
...regulations aren’t quite so detrimental to Harvard—an institution that can afford to replace loans with grants. But they can be disastrous for institutions that lack Harvard’s generous endowment. Professor of Eonomics Terry B. Long, who has been working with H&R Block on the FAFSA Simplification Study, says, “High levels of debt are deterring people from going to college at all.” She adds that people in the United States find it difficult to distinguish between good and bad types of debt. Some underestimate the benefits...