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...Students have been howling that school e-mail accounts are too small to handle their daily deluge of mail and attachments. To address that problem, a growing number of colleges and universities are outsourcing their e-mail. The companies swooping in to manage student accounts for free? Google and Microsoft. Like search, software and operating systems, campuses are a burgeoning battleground for the tech titans. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...home state of Kentucky. He said that he sees two sides to the clothing deal, some of which mirror challenges the polo team has faced. "I think it's going to be bad for Harvard's image," he said. "We already have an image that all of our students are aristocratic, preppy bastards, frankly. So as an undergraduate student I'm kind of taken aback a little bit that that's going to be happening, and I almost want to laugh...
...Nicholas J. Navarro '10, an executive producer of last year's Eleganza fashion show who has been criticized in the past for working on racy fashion scenes, said that he feels conflicted about the new line. "As a student on financial aid, I care about expanding the financial aid system at Harvard," he said. "But at the same time, as a Latino, I came into Harvard my freshman year with preconceptions about Harvard being a culture of wealthy Caucasians, and the product line comes at the cost of reinforcing those stereotypes...
...Navarro said that the clothes, especially because they will be marketed around the world, may discourage poor students interested in Harvard. "If a student, whether from Los Angeles or Shanghai, goes into a store and sees a Harvard brand name that they can't afford, it's easy to think, 'I can't afford to go to Harvard,' or 'Harvard is for rich people...
Still, Soros, who recalled a similar gift given to him when he was a poor student in postwar England, understands that one's personal philanthropy can go only so far. "Two hundred dollars is significant enough," he said when asked why he chose not to give each child a higher amount. "If you put in more, then you would probably have to set some conditions...