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...raise consciousness” and produce the next cadre of leftist activists. Outside speakers—like President Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Mohammed Khatami at Harvard, and the plagiarizing former professor Ward Churchill at Hamilton College, although the last was ultimately cancelled—contribute nothing but the universities?? effective condemnation of American foreign policy. Universities demand and expect academic freedom, by which they mean freedom to make unrelated and extremist political statements...
...bring down tuition. They already are the most generous. It may not be the best thing for Congress to dictate the formulas by which student financial aid and endowment spend out should be connected.” But advocates of closer regulation argue that students are not benefiting from universities?? increasing wealth. Citing her findings in a report commissioned by the Finance Committee, Jane G. Gravelle, an economic policy specialist for the Congressional Research Service, argued that low endowment payments in recent years—a number she said hovered under 5 percent of yearly income?...
...couple of weeks ago.It was then that yours truly attended a dank party in an eerie house, in order to anthropologically investigate the fashion of Brown University. I did it for you, gentle reader. It’s always valuable to keep track of the fashion trends at other universities??doing so makes us aware of how woefully behind we are on all sartorial issues.It wasn’t very hard to find a party at Brown. Unlike at Harvard, where hunting for a party involves Edith Wharton-esque social climbing and tolerance of complete female subjugation, parties...
...Lawrence H. Summers announced the University’s plans to accept displaced students as visiting students in a Sept. 2 letter to the Harvard community, and the College ultimately enrolled 36 students—10 freshmen, 11 sophomores, four juniors, and 11 seniors from Tulane, Xavier, and Loyola Universities??according to a College-wide letter from then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...under legacy preference policies, “the students in America’s places of higher education are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.” The magazine continues: “This is sad in itself, but even sadder when you consider the extraordinary role that the same universities??particularly…Harvard—played in promoting meritocracy in the first half of the 20th century.” The legacy “feather,” then, is a public-relations blunder of Summers-esque proportions. It casts a shadow upon Harvard?...