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...Harvard creative writing: the creative thesis. Spots are even harder to get because instructors can only advise two or three theses. Only English concentrators with a GPA of 3.4 or higher are allowed to apply, and generally those who have taken creative courses are the only ones who stand a chance. Applicants submit proposals in the February of their junior year and languish for a month before finding out if they got in. Even the most talented students may not have their proposal accepted. Tracy K. Smith ’00 recalls an uneasy interview for her creative thesis proposal...
...front row seat for the event’s main attraction, Park Jin-Young (who goes by J.Y.P.), former Korean pop-star, current producer, and Korean household name. By 4:05 p.m., the venue was way overcrowded. A desperate student begged the guard outside to be allowed to stand next to the door: “Sir, I realize it’s a fire hazard to an extent, but don’t you think I’d get the hell out of here if there was a fire...
...STAND activists at Chicago responded heatedly to Zimmer’s announcement, citing Zimmer’s own support of divestment in 2005 as Brown’s provost and the fact that the Kalven report left room for “the exceptional instance [when] the corporate activities of the university may appear so incompatible with paramount social values...
...university is the first elite academic institution in the country to reject divestment, and the only institution to justify their complicity in genocide in moral terms,” Michael Pareles, STAND co-chair said. “Four hundred thousand people have died in the genocide in Darfur, but the University of Chicago Board of Trustees does not find that exceptional enough to change its investment policies...
Princeton STAND activists praised the university’s decision, saying they are “pleased that the University had decided to divest from the government of Sudan, because it does help to send a signal that the University recognizes that atrocities are being committed in Darfur,” according to the Princetonian...