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With the growing number of pudge-fighting resources on campus, perhaps this year’s freshman class will begin to reverse the trend of freshman weight gain. This year, Associate Professor of Epidemiology Karen B. Michels’ new freshman seminar, “You Are What You Eat,” received 85 applications, and this high number shows that students are increasingly concerned about leading healthy lifestyle. The course itself provides an overview about nutrition, including what encompasses a healthy diet, why obesity exists among children, and how genetically engineered foods effect people worldwide. It also questions...
Some wonder if the backbiting tide won't recede as blogs grow up. The trend now is for more prominent sites to be commercialized. A Manhattan entrepreneur named Nick Denton runs a small stable of bloggers as a business by selling advertising on their sites. So far they aren't showing detectible signs of editorial corruption by their corporate masters--two of Denton's blogs, gawker.com and wonkette.com are among the most corrosively witty sites on the Web--but they've lost their amateur status forever...
...looked like everyone else.” Realizing that his father was right, Wood was inspired during his gap year in China to start making his own clothes with the fabrics he found there. Wood is one of a group of Harvard students who buck the Jasmine Sola/J. Crew trend and make their own clothes. Most have no plans to have their designs stocked in Saks, and they aren’t buying there either. “Someone called me a terrorist for wearing this old army jacket of my grandfather’s,” says Wood...
...appalled by how many of us take our 17 years or more of education and sell it off to the highest-paying corporate bidder? Perhaps a few of us have excuses for such behavior, but it’s impossible to see the overall trend as anything but morally reprehensible. When you get down to it, the majority of us are coming from comfortable backgrounds and taking comfortable routes through our four years here on the way to even more comfortable post-college lifestyles.When I say comfortable backgrounds, I don’t mean we all grew up in mega...
...graduate school application process, the GRE merits periodic scrutiny to ensure that the examination is in fact worthwhile and well-designed. But inherent problems are certain to remain. In particular, GRE writing section grades are notoriously correlated with essay length. The Princeton Review GRE preparation book admits this trend and even advises test-takers to strategize accordingly. This ill-conceived scoring method will be counterbalanced, however, by a new policy of sending, along with scores, the writing samples themselves to graduate school admissions committees, who can evaluate their quality more adeptly than GRE graders. Prospective graduate school students have reason...