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...events to 35, according to a document obtained by The Crimson on advising budget cuts. In addition, the head of undergraduate advising programming, Associate Dean Monique Rinere, will leave this summer for a new post at Columbia, and her post will likely be left vacant, according to two students on the student advisory committee. The advising office faces the “loss of one assistant dean,” whose responsibilities would have included overseeing new advising programs that would cater to athletes and international students, according to the document. There is no indication from the document that...
...university as one of the “stable bedrock institutions” that have helped guard the Boston area from the worst of the economic crisis. However, we remain unconvinced that this bedrock provides sufficient support for our community’s most vulnerable members. Although still valuable, student-run programs in the Phillips Brooks House and screenings this summer of “Finding Nemo” for local residents are not the solution to unemployment...
...Laura M. Binger is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School. John F. Bowman ’11 is a sociology concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is a member of the Student Labor Action Movement. Benjamin J. Oldfield is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School...
This idea of articulating “values” sounds slightly stodgy and conservative, but Harvard has long considered it an essential part of the liberal arts education, requiring that every student take a course in “Moral Reasoning.” According to the course catalog, the aim of Moral Reasoning is to “discuss significant and recurrent questions of choice and value that arise in human experience”; one can satisfy this requirement with courses ranging from Mansfield’s Machiavelli to John Rawls and Catherine MacKinnon...
...room with black teenage girls and her message couldn't be more radical or more all-American: Anyone can be anything if they are willing to work hard enough at it. This is inspiration with an edge. The honors student who wrote her Princeton thesis about being black in the Ivy League knows that the difference between success and failure can be cruelly random. She knew lots of bright kids growing up, she says, "and you slowly see people slipping through the cracks, you know that there but for the grace of God." She had friends who could have thrived...