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...administration’s plans for J-term lifted momentarily this past weekend, but the forecast looks bleak nonetheless. At a question-and-answer session for junior parents this past Friday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris informed parents that housing at the College during January of next year??€”which will no longer host reading period or exams—might only be granted to international students, athletes, and other special-interest groups. This sudden revelation is emblematic of the disturbing mixed signals that the student body is now receiving about J-term plans...
...College is either being too obscure about J-term or it has clearly not planned well enough for the changing calendar. As we approach the end of this school year??€”with an administration that recently has tended toward pushing plans off—it is far too late to not have a clear conception of what January will be. The schedule change has been under consideration for years, and the idea that the College is still uncertain about this essential component is troubling. If budget anxiety is to blame for the prolonged uncertainty, then the administration ought...
It’s that time of year??€”winter is staging a last stand, the United States and South Korea are playing their yearly war games, and North Korea is threatening the region. This time, though, Kim Jong-Il’s rogue state forces us to ask whether it is merely crying wolf again. With more pressing issues on its plate, the United States can not cater to North Korea’s pouting...
...Harvard Phillips Brooks House Association’s Alternative Spring Break program received a record 380 applications for this year??€™s trips—an increase of approximately 90 percent over last year. The program, which gives students the opportunity to work on public service projects over the week-long vacation, will send about 120 students to nine different locations this March. More students will be participating in the program this year than any other year in its near half-century history, with the exception of 2006, when a special donation from the Harvard COOP allowed 150 students...
...captain J.P. O’Connor and sophomore Corey Janzten taking second, while junior co-captain Louis Caputo notched a third-place finish.Top-seeded O’Connor—also No. 4 in the nation at 157 lbs.—looked to avenge a loss in last year??€™s 149 lbs. finals, using a fall and two decisions to earn a matchup with No. 5 Jordan Leen of Cornell. Although O’Connor topped the second-seed 7-5 earlier this year, it was Leen’s turn for retribution...