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Every school year, Phi Beta Kappa holds three rounds of elections—one in the spring of junior year and two during senior year—to select students for admittance to the 230-year-old nationwide honor society...
...this: Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Congresswoman Jane Harman of California. Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate, while Harman is an ambitious Harvard Law School graduate who is the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are credible and respected inside the Beltway, in their way. But they are far from household names, and neither inspires confidence outside Washington...
...staff to help fundraise and coordinate campus logistics. Student delegates from over 15 colleges across the nation—including Stanford University, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota—participated in the conference. Attendees from abroad hailed from over four different countries, according to organizers. During select panels, delegates stationed in Ghana, Nairobi, and Kenya participated in the live discussions through an internet portal network. BMF President Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 said his organization decided to help sponsor the event because the aims of the conference to help empower...
...Kalis, a second-year student at the Divinity School, said graduate students need a more powerful voice. “I’m really concerned that students will not be taken seriously in this process because their input will be seen as second class and lower than the select people who have unfettered access,” said Kalis, who added that the group had not received a reply to its letter from the University as of last night. The president of the Law School Council, Zachary W. Prager, said that the next Harvard leader will have to confront...
...Faculty Approves Secondary Fields,” news, Apr. 5. I was genuinely surprised to see the faculty approve secondary fields for Harvard undergraduates. Secondary fields strike at the underlying premise of Harvard students’ education: that they should be students of the world and not of select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit...