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...message began as innocently as thousands of other singles ads that are routinely posted on the Internet in Japan. "Seeking companion," wrote the lonely male undergrad student from Tokyo. He wasn't looking for his dream date. "I have everything prepared except sleeping pills," the posting concluded. Two weeks later, on May 21, the college student was found dead in a car on a road running through a Gunma Prefecture forest. With him were the bodies of two other young men who, after evidently answering his online invitation, committed collective suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning...
...almost half of undergraduates today do better than I did my best year.” To him, whether or not current students deserve these grades is not a question: “the same degree of smarts now gets higher grades than it did [when I was an undergrad].” So Jasanoff, like many other department chairs, has been pushing his professors to combat grade inflation...
...administration could solve a lot of the unhappiness at Harvard if they just gave undergrads things to do on the weekend. University deans, however, clearly do not consider undergrad social life a priority and do amazingly little to improve it. Practically no money is spent on it and the only reason events such as Mather Lather occur at all is because a few dedicated individuals sacrifice their time and grades to make it happen. This problem—the lack of social outlets—needs to be taken seriously by those in charge...
...April 18 Crimson article an undergrad decries the judge’s decision to deny Pring-Wilson bail. “The decision was political,” she says. Of course the decision was political. No one can expect the death of a local latino 18-year-old with a GED and a baby daughter to be treated apolitically when the accused man is a white Harvard grad student...
Sarah Hughes, forward cross-step aside. This prefrosh weekend, another prospective undergrad could rival last year’s Olympic figure skating champion for the distinction of the most famous member of Harvard’s class...