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...life,” says Hadfield. Although the pair did not snag a win, they did garner 912 votes, exceeding Hadfield’s previously expressed goal of gaining 600 ballots. And they placed second, beating a team of UC veterans who had once been seen as serious contenders.While his achievements in campus politics might seem to signal a potential presidential run this fall, Hadfield says he does not have designs on the UC’s top job. “I promised my girlfriend that I wouldn’t,” says Hadfield, who is dating...
...class. I had no idea what a hedge fund was, what consultants did, or that people actually aspired to be investment bankers. (I only knew that being a banker earned you the most cash in “Oregon Trail” but that you got docked serious character points.) Before Harvard, my world was blissfully free of grade grubbing—there were no grades to be grubbed. Before Harvard, interest trumped image, and there was no question that I would forsake studying for an exam to help a friend through a tough time. I wonder, sometimes, if there...
...criticisms their paper has faced, Walt writes in an e-mail. They will also publish a revised version of their paper, he says.“Although there are a few places where we might word our arguments differently, the criticisms published to date have not cast serious doubt on the central findings of our paper,” Walt writes.But the volume of criticism to date suggests that many of their colleagues—both at Harvard and beyond—vehemently disagree.—Staff writer John R. Macartney can be reached at jmacartn@fas.harvard.edu...
...report has been on the table since its release in November, but the Faculty failed to even discuss, much less take a vote on, the groundbreaking document at any of its full meetings during the year. While the report certainly has its shortcomings, those can only be addressed when serious debate begins. Thus far, it hasn’t. While the Faculty has made progress in terms of expanding the restrictive course offerings of the Core for next year, there has been far too much inertia with respect to discussing necessary, more sweeping reforms.When the Faculty finally got around...
...college in the first place), and it is far from clear, as the Commission later acknowledged, that any standardized tests could be developed to accurately reflect the diversity of higher education curricula. Moreover, setting up a national database to track student performance, in addition to throwing serious privacy concerns by the wayside, will divert federal funds from programs that would produce tangible benefits—not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what will happen to American education should institutions, with their budgets reduced, fail to meet the thresholds...