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...College is to lead the nation and not merely reflect it. Nevertheless, I did enjoy myself, and for this I congratulate the newly elected College Events Board. The bumper cars were very cool. Enjoyable though it was, the carnival will probably be forgotten. It was like Harvard-Yale without the hookups. Or alcohol. Or meaning. It was also like a large family reunion—noisy and irregular—with everyone smiling on for dear life. The matriarch had coerced everyone into attending, and that is why they did, secure in the return to routine upon its happy...
...when I was a freshman because this is about 800 times cooler than the ice cream social.” The student-run College Events Board (CEB), funded by $200,000 from University Hall, planned the carnival—the first in a series of activities, including the Harvard-Yale Pep Rally in the fall and Yardfest in the spring, slated for this year. The CEB this fall assumed responsibility for social programming, previously a task reserved for the UC. Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 oversaw the planning and execution of the carnival...
...market for housing futures gets large enough, though, other sorts of financial products more useful to homeowners should crop up, says Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist who has been pushing the idea for 15 years. The grander vision, developed with Karl Case of Wellesley College, includes home-equity insurance. The idea is that companies will write those policies if there's a robust futures market for hedging risk. "Real estate is bigger than the stock market," says Shiller. Twenty trillion dollars big, in fact...
...with your over-achieving habits still intact, will find yourself nibbling on a pre-wrapped muffin and sucking down coffee at 4 a.m. at a café in Lamont Library, while you bemoan the fact that Harvard actually requires (some) mental exertion and print out a transfer app to Yale. Finally, some of you may have already begun to think about classes. Likely, you’ll want some help, so here’s some advice on advising: It doesn’t exist here. Your proctor will be unable to tell you if there are any decent Cores...
...vision in the face of overbearing precedent and potential detriment to the school.The admissions office and the College have taken several steps in recent years to make the undergraduate admissions process simpler and fairer for all students. Harvards’ early action system served as a model for Yale and Stanford when they switched to non-binding early action programs, and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative for low-income students has also spurred other schools, especially Yale, to expand its financial aid packages.We hope that eliminating early admissions altogether proves to be as influential as some of Harvard?...