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House life. Randomization went into effect with the Class of '99, and house character is unquestionably more artificial today where it can be said to exist at all. Worse yet, gay and black students (among others) no longer have residential spaces where they feel particularly at home. But on the plus side, lingering bastions of old Harvard elitism were wiped out, and self-segregation has been minimized. Randomization aside, however, house life is better because of the crop of new masters who have taken the reins. In Leverett House, Howard and Ann Georgi have won universal praise by learning students...
Health care. Anonymous HIV testing is a plus, but students are no more confident in University Health Services today than they were in 1995. Horror stories remain common and the alcohol policy remains unclear to many. Verdict: Even...
...there you have it. Thanks to the administration, faculty, students, alumni, even technology, Harvard College is better today than it was four years ago, in a variety of ways. That's not to say that these gains are all necessarily important, or even justified; I have argued in the past and continue to believe that seniors should consider not giving to the Senior Gift, for example, because Harvard has so much money and allocates it so poorly. Nonetheless, in a world where things are always rapidly changing, and often not for the better, it feels good to leave here knowing...
Twenty years ago federal scholarship aid, including Pell grants, represented nearly twenty percent of the College's scholarship budget. Today federal scholarship aid accounts for less than six percent of the College's scholarship program. In other words, as the needs of Harvard's scholarship students have risen, the College, not the federal government, has borne the full cost of meeting those increased needs...
...world's biggest what? Amazon.com announced today that it's buying 35 percent of Homegrocer.com, a Seattle-area online grocer with national plans. The $42.5 million-dollar investment is just the latest splash in an ongoing wave of expansion plans that include eBay-style auctions, Pets.com and a web pharmacy called Drugstore.com...