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...anything but.By all accounts, she was a popular figure on Princeton University’s campus during her half-decade as head of a residential college. In December, Harvard hired her away and made her its first-ever associate dean of academic advising.On Feb. 27, she arrived here to spearhead the much-heralded overhaul of the College’s advising system. But her honeymoon was short.On her sixth day at the new job, Rinere met with the board of the 20-year-old, undergraduate-run Prefect Program and told them they would be “morphed?...
Editor-in-Chief Hayley J. Fink ’08, who volunteered to spearhead the project when it was conceived in late 2005, says the breezy tone of The Blue Line—and its compact size—might attract people who would typically ignore campus politics...
...seventh place in the “Per Capita Classic” part of the competition. “It’s the best we’ve ever done in proportion to the number of contestants,” Robert Gogan, supervisor of waste management and spearhead of the Recyclemania campaign here, said of the “Per Capita Classic” results, comparing last year’s eighth place out of 48 colleges to this year’s seventh out of 87. “We were pleased to see that we beat Yale...
...killing.) Nor should the force be merely reactive: it should take proactive steps in Darfur to seek out and neutralize the offending Janjaweed militia. But the effort must be led by European nations. Because of the ongoing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military is too stretched to spearhead the effort. But the U.S. should still provide funding, intelligence, logistics, and even troops when possible.The U.S. and its European allies cannot wait any longer. The dark shadow of our failure to act on the eve of the Rwandan genocide, and the relative success of former President Bill Clinton?...
...member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), Jamila R. Martin ’07, said that her group intends to spearhead such an effort...