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Under the new plan, upperclassmen who are unable to return to their houses during the day for lunch will be able to select a sandwich, drink, fruit, cookies and chips from the Grab and Go station in the Yard, which will most likely be found in Loker Commons. The Task Force hopes that this plan will alleviate one of the most common complaints among upperclassmen, especially those living in the Quad: that they pay for the 21 meal plan, but are never able to get lunch without paying extra...
...think this is just a grand idea! Why stop at internships? Why not elect the President by randomly selecting from all those qualified? And why wait until you are an "Internship Coordinator"? For your next date, just randomly select from all those qualified. I'm sure it will make a wonderful pick-up line: "Hey, babe, even though you aren't the best, you have been randomly selected from all agreeable candidates." And the criticism you give to those who don't "make the cut" will be valuable for their own edification...
...mail sent yesterday to student leaders, UAC co-chair Adam R. Kovacevich '99, said that the council felt the fairest policy was "to select a cross-sampling of groups that tend to represent extracurricular 'niches' on campus." Many ethnic organizations also host their own receptions and are already represented in a panel discussion of minority groups, Kovacevich added...
Though many Harvard students journey to Florida for spring break, only a select few spend their time learning the native flora, sampling lakes and watching out for alligators...
...Harvard history professor Stephan Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White. "The blind assumption is that just breathing the air on an elite campus is remediation." But some diversity advocates are so frustrated that they are ready to give up on the whole idea of trying to select the best of the best. "It would be a moral mistake for Berkeley to continue to rely on the new system," says Ronald Takaki, a professor of ethnic studies at Berkeley. He has called for his school to admit its next class from a lottery among the top third...