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...Wall Street Journal article by Daniel Golden—a 2004 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles exposing the huge admissions advantages afforded to privileged white students??exposed what might appear to be another disturbing college admissions trend. Some analyses of standardized test scores show that Asian-American applicants, on average, must attain higher scores to snag admission to some of the nation’s most desirable schools. But these statistics, while initially disturbing, are the result of a just and well intentioned system of affirmative action in college admissions. That system should...
...Dining Services (HUDS) dominated the agenda at yesterday’s Committee on House Life meeting (CHL), as committee members heard a presentation on HUDS’s operations from the independent consulting firm Higher Aims, LLC and discussed ways to improve the residential dining system to better accommodate students?? schedules...
...responded. How mistaken I was. Upon reading the article more carefully, I quickly realized that the increased police patrols in the quad were not in fact intended to protect Harvard students going to and from the quad, but to protect the rest of the community from them! The Harvard students?? grave crime: making too much noise. Am I the only one who thinks someone upstairs has a few screws loose in their head? Noise complaints are certainly a legitimate issue for the police to address on a case-by-case basis, but we are living in a serious...
...mysterious “Hidden Harvard: 15 Places You Absolutely Won’t See on the Campus Tour,” (I still haven’t seen or heard of 13 of these places), the painfully true “Colorful Characters: The 12 Types of Harvard Students?? (including the legacies, backwoods hicks, and Rhodes Scholars), the useful “Where It’s At: 5 Well-Loved Concentrations,” and more useful, “Harvard Hookups: 5 Types of Relationships That Are Better Avoided” (including the Teaching Fellow/Tutor...
...needs to choose wisely the referenda that it places on its ballot. Referenda on students?? preferences on vague issues do not have a place in a campus election. Without knowing the cost of this proposal and who will pay for it, students can only voice their support for the idea of reducing emissions. Until more information is available to students, this referendum belongs in a basket of well intentioned ideas, but not on a UC ballot...