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Some sports programs actually more closely mirror campus-wide concentration choices. The men’s volleyball team, for example, fields as many computer science majors as their economics counterparts. Likewise, the women’s lightweight crew boasts 11 biology or biochemical sciences concentrators—half its upper-class roster—and a slew of rowers studying in less frequently chosen fields, from Sanskrit and Indian Studies to Environmental Science and Public Policy. The glaring omission from the slate? Psychology...
Still, greater awareness and dialogue mean little if we do not also have a sense of urgency about the very tangible things at stake this year. To give you a sense of what I’m talking about, imagine these potential outcomes: first-years are assigned to upper-class houses when they arrive on campus, concentration choice moves back to sophomore year, student representatives sit on the Administrative Board, Houses are built on the other side of the river, international study becomes a requirement and a student center is built. None of these ideas are sure to happen...
...couple of years in Noida. "There will be a huge diversion of people into other malls," he frets. Indeed, a cloud hangs over the future of Gurgaon, with up to 20 malls scheduled to open in the next couple of years. New malls will soon be built in the upper-class Delhi neighborhood of Vasant Kunj, and will likely slash the inflow of wealthy Delhiites into Gurgaon. "We will see some big reductions in the numbers at Gurgaon malls; they will become less profitable for the retailers," says Sanjay Chandra, director of Unitech, a major real estate firm that...
...Beirut, the Sri Lankan nanny riding in the back of the Mercedes or the Range Rover with the kids is an almost ubiquitous sight. And it’s not uncommon to see young upper-class women walking unashamedly in the streets here with big bandages over their noses: plastic surgery is huge in Beirut and a new nose is as much a status symbol as a new car. Expensive anything—cell phones, clothes, cars, clubs—is in. Beirut is shallow, superficial and even a little tacky in its ostentatious display of beauty and wealth...
...film, shot entirely with handheld cameras—a throwback to Nair’s years as a documentary filmmaker—follows five stories through the days leading up to an upper-class Punjabi wedding...