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Last spring’s HCCR report—a hodgepodge of ideas derived from commonplace practices at competing universities??had an identity crisis, and the committees appointed last week will be tasked with solving it. This year’s committees have the opportunity to refine and broaden the ideas—or lack thereof—that emerged from last year’s opaque deliberations. But the committees will likely only do so by opening up a process in dire need of fresh ideas, alternative perspectives, and an infusion of creativity...
Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, who co-chairs the council’s University Relations Committee, said yesterday he appreciated the universities?? efforts to keep students from flooding the crowded Cambridge housing market...
...Brandon Geller ’08. Some believe that the expansion signals a cheapening of Harvard. “I don’t approve of them branching out to the rainbow. This school has a heritage, and that is what separates Harvard from the other ‘Universities??,” says Virginia Fisher ’08. Despite some disapproval, The Coop seems to believe that it’s options, not tradition, that customers want...
Last year, the University left behind a five-year drought of second- and third-place finishes to take the highest spot in the magazine’s “National Universities?? category. This year Harvard remains on top—and like last year, it shares that honor with Princeton, which also received an overall score of 100. The tied Ivies bested such perennial competitors as Yale (with 99 points), the University of Pennsylvania (95), and Duke, MIT and Stanford, all tied at 94 points...
...first major challenge in its 25-year history, Summers co-wrote an op-ed in The New York Times with Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe also authored a friend-of-the-court brief—co-signed by seven other universities??trumpeting Harvard’s policy in urging the Court to uphold the University of Michigan’s policy...