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...students study abroad, including nearby Wellesley. Even the most foundational change proposed by the review, a shift from the Core Curriculum to distribution requirements giving students “great freedom of choice,” is a long overdue synchronization with the academic programs of Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Imitation is flattery, and Harvard has been doing a lot of flattering. But as long as we are looking to other schools for ideas, why aren’t we adopting one of their best...
...What could have happened by having Yale, Harvard and Stanford, all with Early Action Single-Choice, affect each other’s yield negatively didn’t happen, and we’re pleased with that,” Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said...
Illinois has beaten current top-20 teams nine times, including a 4-0 drubbing of No. 3 UCLA, a 4-2 defeat of No. 9 Stanford and 6-1 wins over No. 6 Duke and No. 8 Florida...
Tara Kirk, a Stanford senior and an Olympic-swimming-medal hopeful, swore her body was straight in the water as she raced. Then she looked at herself on the small screen. Her coach had popped open a laptop and, using a software program called Dartswim, superimposed a picture of Kirk's technique from 2002 on an image of her current form. The message was clearer than a chlorinated pool: despite some improvement, she still arched her body during the strokes, adding seconds to her time. "You can't go with what you feel," says her college coach, Richard Quick. "Tara...
...Where do we go from here? Stanford law professor R. Richard Banks, a leading scholar on racial discrimination, believes that litigation needs to be combined with other advocacy strategies, but should take care to leave room for politics. More and more African Americans are in positions of political power and they need the leeway to institute social change. At the same time, however, litigation should not be ignored because it can galvanize social movements, says Banks, and might alter people's values the way Brown...