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...hierarchy at this institution. The social hierarchy at Harvard is well-defined, not by race or wealth, but by date of graduation. Quincy’s expulsion of freshman diners is just another example of the feeling of upperclassman entitlement and the barbaric belief that we must endure a year-long rite of passage in order to become full-fledged members of this college. Meanwhile, Annenberg food is infamously unappetizing, which serves only to exacerbate the freshman-upperclassman divide...
Nicolais, who lost his bid for UC president last semster, resigned his seat, announcing on the UC open list that he would be “exploring the world,” on a year-long leave of absence from Harvard...
Ellison said that before he returns to teaching Harvard students, he will take a year-long leave of absence—his first sabbatical since...
...College is thankfully taking steps to recruit new voices to speak on behalf of the student body. Following the year-long tenure of Zachary A. Corker ’04 as assistant to the dean for special programming, the College is creating the Harvard College Fellowship for Campus Life—a one-year position available only to graduating seniors. The new fellowship will resemble Corker’s role—an attempt to build an effective bridge between students and the administration to improve Harvard’s oft-bemoaned social life...
...underground, the indie and the experimental. A member of two bands that he describes as “future rock” in style, Xuan specializes in analog synthesizers and electronic music. He’s even carving time out of his premed course load to take a year-long electronic music class. A close friend of Xuan’s, Tim H. Wong ’05, remarks that “the reason Yan is interesting is that he’s got all these under-the-radar talents...