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Holiday headaches may be in store for two anonymous donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window...
...Class of 2009 was the most socioeconomically diverse class in the history of the College, and early figures suggest that the trend will continue this year, according to the admissions office...
...pledge initiative, which asks students and faculty to submit a checklist of the ways in which they promise to conserve energy, is part of the larger “emPower Harvard” campaign. The checklist that HGCI distributed throughout campus asks participants to check off boxes that suggest different ways they can conserve energy on a daily basis. “Make sure that my computer is set to go into sleep mode,” and “make double-sided copies” are among the document’s suggestions. According to HGCI, the University...
...some other discipline—English, for example. Yet, we hardly ever hear about them; in fact, we rarely hear anything about masculine gender roles, though it appears that these are often even more rigid. Female doctors are now completely commonplace, but male nurses still warrant notice. Suggest that a woman ought to cook dinner because of some inherent ability, and you may end up eating a lonely meal of take-out, but what man would take offense at the assumption that he ought to be the one to mow the lawn and fix the plumbing...
...orgy of empathy even spurred Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II to suggest that “there’s still a lot of work to be done” with regard to campus tolerance. Yet no one offered any real ideas on how to stop drive-by homophobia on the streets of Cambridge, which most likely occurred because the University has little power in this area to begin with...