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...think the system is very fair because it is done by GPA and looking at the rest of your curriculum. It is purely academic--extra-curriculars, race and gender are not involved," said Luba A. Kobrinsky '97, a member of Phi Beta Kappa who helped select this year's first 24 inductees...
Harvard Dining Services should hold its Chinese food to the same standard that we hope it uses to select the rest of its entrees: choose meals that a sane person could be expected to eat. No rational individual would ever eat Grade F chicken covered with the substances used to defoliate trees in Vietnam...
Most students currently put their Core courses at the bottom of their academic priorities. But students who are able to select courses appropriate to their backgrounds and abilities will have a greater investment in the courses they choose and thus will be more committed to them. The Core must be modified to allow students to strive toward their academic potential in areas outside of their concentration...
...Comet Hale-Bopp. In an otherwise orderly and predictable cosmos, where the movement of stars was charted confidently by Egyptians and Druids, the appearance of a comet, an astronomical oddity, has long been an opportunity for panic. When Halley's comet returned in 1910, an Oklahoma religious sect, the Select Followers, had to be stopped by the police from sacrificing a virgin. In the case of Hale-Bopp, for months the theory that it might be a shield for an approaching ufo has roiled the excitable on talk radio and in Internet chat rooms like--what else?--alt.conspiracy...
...students, who received Goldwater Scholarships, were among a select group of 250 to 300 college sophomores and juniors chosen annually by the Goldwater Scholarship Foundation, Office of Career Services Director of Fellowships Paul A. Bohlmann said yesterday...