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...Yeng ’01, one of the organizers of protests against the article, was flooded with messages from students on campus—including minority students—claiming that the problems of race and ethnicity at Harvard were exaggerated. Students were quick to be defensive about the topic. “People were really hostile to the issue of race being a problem,” she says...
...graded a paper in which a student cited none of the assigned readings, failed to address the topic question and then balked at his “C” grade because—and I quote—“my 12-year-old brother could understand my paper.” (I kept the student’s grade unchanged but gave his brother...
...creates a miserable situation that, as the report itself admits, “would likely increase the number of unsuccessful or indifferent theses.” The most common advice given to potential thesis writers is only to write if they are truly engaged and interested by the topic; it would be folly to force rising first-years to choose whether or not to enter a thesis-writing concentration so early in their college careers...
Such incentive trusts are a hot topic in estate-planning circles, in which the issue of how to leave money behind without ruining your heirs is getting almost as much attention as tax planning. In Beyond the Grave, authors Gerald and Jeffrey Condon argue that incentives don't work. "True character cannot be molded by money," they write. "You cannot salvage by inheritance what you fear you have not accomplished during your life." But others endorse incentive trusts as a useful way to motivate silver-spoon heirs. "Provide a resource, not an entitlement," says Joanne Johnson, a wealth-adviser manager...
...Riverside meetings often turn testy—especially when the topic moves to Harvard’s plans for an art museum on the Mahoney’s site...