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Hayward was raised in a New York suburb, where he attended catholic school. The candidate said he reached a turning point when he was accepted to Phillips Exeter Academy on a full scholarship. “At Exeter I had a lot of growth and it opened my eyes and opened my mind to applying to places like Harvard, whereas I might not have considered that stuff before,” Hayward said...

Author: By Maria Shen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UC Election Profiles '09: A "Driven" Duo | 11/15/2009 | See Source »

...work can be divided into two categories: Tristes Tropiques, and everything else. Cherished as a formative influence by many established anthropologists, the slim volume sets down in pearlescent prose all the bittersweet joys of the profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss’ more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that “the world on which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” Part of this had to do with...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: One Hundred Years of Fortitude | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...graduation, U of D is the chute through which bright young men can get to college. The school boasts a near perfect graduation rate and sends 99% of its graduates on to higher education. (In 2009 the one student who didn't go to college turned down a scholarship from the University of Michigan to sign a seven-figure contract with the Detroit Tigers.) (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesuit Message Drives Detroit's Last Catholic School | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...life experience has been about being sort of an outsider, a little awkward in some very sophisticated venues. I was conscious that my experience was kind of invisible in that world. And as a woman, I learned to define myself as separate from [the] world of academia and scholarship, even as I was doing well. Coming into my scholarship through the women’s movement and also through my life experience has made me hypersensitive to issues of marginality...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...can’t help but feel reservations. The challenge of looking for an elusive book is one of the singular joys of scholarship for me, part of what rescues it from becoming a mere exercise in pedantry or reinterpretation. Even Harvard’s relatively sensible library system has supplied me with a few pleasurable scavenger hunts. Now a Google search and a glorified Xerox machine threaten to supersede that entire process...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Dream of a Universal Bookstore | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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