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...make like a young Che Guevara and hop on a motorcycle to see what the world is made of? London marketing exec Simon Smith got that itch in 1999 and went scuffing around India to recalibrate his life. And the product of his two years of soul searching? A scheme he started in 2003 to help others to find their inner Che?and do some good along the way. Every February, Smith, an avid biker, leads 120 or so riders on the Enduro India tour, a two-week, 2,500-km motorcycle trek from Goa to Cochin via the magnificent...
...vast and complex institution. No single advisor, however knowledgeable and well-intentioned, could ever be expected to know the answer to every question students might ask. The proper approach to a sound advising program, therefore, is not to compress all advising responsibilities onto individual advisors. Instead, a multifaceted scheme should be developed in which different areas of advising are handled by those who know them best. An integral component of such a solution is the participation of well trained peer advisors. Prefects are currently prohibited from dispensing academic advice to freshmen, but this policy is senseless. As it stands, proctors...
...said presidential candidate Magnus Grimeland ’07.Competing presidential candidate John S. Haddock ’07 agreed that the exchange of vote in the market could have jeopardized people’s faith in the outcome of the election.“The vote buying scheme was really disturbing and threw all of our trust in the election into question,” Haddock said. “I think that we have to be very much reassured that no individual would stoop so low as to buy votes in this campaign—that is so important...
...Eliot House residents Maya E. Frommer ’07 and Jennifer C. O’Brien ’07. Frommer said she first pitched the redesign theme to the Eliot House Committee (HoCo) as a possible way of making the then-closed Grille usable again. Her design scheme, she said, was inspired by some basic elements of the old Grille’s appearance. “Before [the renovation] there was a black-and-white checkered floor and chrome furniture,” she said. “It sort of looked like...
...could ever hope to enjoy), sending six or seven students back to Tulane with a rejection from the very institution that has welcomed them over the past three months would be unnecessarily harsh. Either way, the shortcomings of a special admissions cycle for the Tulane freshmen render such a scheme impractical. To be sure, we are mindful of the difficult situation that these eight Tulane freshmen were thrust into during this dark summer. It’s true that Harvard is the only college they have ever known; it’s equally true that having to undergo the college...