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...uninitiated: the IOP’s programming is a result of a strange coordination between the Institute’s paid staff and the Student Advisory Committee (SAC), about 40 Harvard undergrads. Working with money and space left as a memorial to President Kennedy, the Institute offers speaker forums, study groups led by renowned political minds, policy groups and more. It’s one of the only places in the world where college kids can regularly interact with the political elite, gaining skills, experiences and, yes, connections that might allow us to someday join them...
...seemed to me to be yet another way in which our supposedly meritocratic school helped perpetuate a rich, white, mainstream elite instead of developing a meritocratic one blind to previous privilege. After all, according to best estimates based on rampant facebooking, only six out of the 42 members of SAC are not white (and only 15 are women). And, based on admittedly unscientific observation alone, SAC is filled with polo shirts and blazers...
Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 won Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair, a position seen as a springboard to the UC presidency. Four of the past five UC presidents have held this office, but as a junior, Chadbourne cannot run for next year’s presidency...
...Angeles International Airport two weeks ago, FBI agents arrested an Irish businessman they had spent a week tailing all over California's Silicon Valley, from the offices of two electronics manufacturers in Sunnyvale to a hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland. He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one manifestation...
MIREILLE Guiliano, a French exchange student, eagerly rushed toward her father, who was waiting on the dock. Guiliano was returning home after an eventful year in the U.S. Her father coolly assessed his beloved daughter as she approached. "Tu ressembles ?? un sac de patates[You look like a sack of potatoes]," he told her flatly. Crushed, Guiliano, then 19, knew exactly what he was talking about. Living la vie am??ricaine, full of brownies and chocolate-chip cookies, had won her an American figure, padded with an extra 20 lbs. A return to the Continent and French habits quickly cured...