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...month later, Skocpol filed a grievance for sexual discrimination against the University—the first use of the Faculty’s grievance process—saying she was glad that such a channel was open to her.Today, former colleagues, students, and teachers praise Skocpol for her scholarship and energy. “The students were as you could expect quite upset,” recalls Peter Bearman, who was the graduate student coordinator when Skocpol’s petition for tenure was rejected, in an e-mail. He now chairs Columbia’s sociology department...
...Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...Shortly after Kristof began his Rhodes Scholarship in 1981, he traveled to Eastern Europe on a vacation. While he was in Poland, the government declared martial law. Kristof, as Grafstein recalls, sent the first dispatch out of the country, stringing for The Washington Post...
...raise tuition, according to Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern.” “Practically speaking, between 1940 and the early 50s, inflation must have been at least 100 percent,” he says.The Corporation also increased funds earmarked for scholarships and financial aid. Buck told The Crimson at the time that the University planned “to use a substantial portion of the money gained from increased tuition as free unrestricted funds for loans and scholarships for needy students.”Other uses for the money raised through...
...wanted to do, which was to be on The Crimson,” he says.Rosenthal rose quickly in the ranks of The Crimson to become the Associate Managing Editor, while also scoring a job on the side as the New York Herald’s sports correspondent.Rosenthal was on scholarship at a time when one of his own articles reported that a $40,000 loan program constituted a 300 percent increase in financial aid for the Class of 1958.To make ends meet, Rosenthal worked two hours every night at the Adams House Dining Hall in addition to his work...