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...school football and soccer careers, not only dominated their Northeastern, Eastern, and Ivy competition, but also clobbered their national competition in the National Rugby Championship game against the University of Colorado in the spring of 1984—an accomplishment that has never been repeated.“The whole run to the national championships not only caught the university by surprise, it caught us by surprise...All of a sudden, we didn’t have a budget,” said George L. Askew ’85, who was a junior on the winning team...
...policy in a way hadn’t really paid attention to that issue,” said University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who was the associate dean for Undergraduate Education at the time. “There was a time when that whole notion didn’t even exist.”But in 1984, the University could no longer afford to ignore what seemed to be a growing problem. Students and staff began raising concerns that the Harvard’s sexual harassment procedures were inadequate, leaving female students, staff members and junior faculty...
This year, many students at Harvard watched as the financial crisis of last fall spiraled into one of the deepest recessions in living memory. But aside from the grim economic news, this past year has also brought with it a whole host of new international opportunities, controversies, and celebrations. The bleak state of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been moderated to some extent, but new challenges for the United States and the world—including a resurgent Russia, a rising China, and economic turmoil all over the globe—put a great deal...
...know, other than making a shitload of money, I’m not sure a whole lot,” Kukulowicz said...
...same old issues like opposition to taxes and gay rights. Clinging to them so stubbornly has led the GOP to shoot itself in the foot Cheney-style on a number of occasions, doing a major disservice not only to its own voters, but to the country as a whole. But rather than bolster its image with fresh policy proposals, the party’s current strategy seems to be to take a time-out and keep its fingers crossed for an epic presidential mistake...