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...Crimson burst out of the gate with an 11-0-0 start and a meteoric rise to the top of the national rankings. After a setback against New Hampshire, Harvard rolled again, sweeping the Beanpot, ECAC Regular Season, and ECAC Tournament titles while going undefeated for the rest of the regular season and through the first round of the NCAA tourney. Current tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, always respected for her uncanny scoring abilities, became an all-around juggernaut, tallying 26 goals and 36 assists while terrorizing opponents on defense in a transcendent campaign...
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced a series of major reforms to the American public education system. In an address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he proposed increased spending for the hiring of new teachers as well as greater funding for Head Start and other early childhood education programs. Especially promising, his plan would institute merit pay for teachers in up to 150 school districts, lift the limits on charter schools that exist in some states, and make it easier for schools to fire underperforming teachers. We are encouraged by President Obama’s commitment...
...Another group of students were motivated to enter the entrepreneurial world after having worked on a Harvard student publication. Windsor G. Hanger ’10 got her start working on Freeze College Magazine and is now utilizing that experience to develop a new magazine geared toward the college crowd that extends nationwide called Her Campus. Hanger says that the success of Freeze within the Harvard community inspired the group to see national expansion as a viable next step...
...campus as a viable career option. While May says that he is satisfied with the level of support he receives from the College, he admits that more resources regarding entrepreneurship would be beneficial to students in general. “Maybe if career services made a push for start-ups being an alternative line of work, besides the standard consulting and i-banking,” says May. “I think that could be beneficial to standardize it as something people think about as their career track...
...While undergraduates might appreciate their liberal arts education, Ager says that students may be unprepared to enter the workforce due to the lack of business classes at Harvard. “It’s very foolish to think that anybody could start any sort of enterprise without having some basic knowledge of accounting and finance,” he says. “Can you learn? Eventually you can. But I think that you’re at a significant disadvantage to these other students from these others schools who have these backgrounds because they understand finance, they understand...