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...approve the figure. “My understanding,” said Chadbourne, “is [HUDS] is sometimes constrained by what FAS thinks [HUDS] needs.” HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin did return requests for comment by press time. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...While at Harvard, Reiss was co-president of the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine—along with fellow Simpsons writer Jonathan M. Vitti ’81. —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...inclusion of a party component is not altogether surprising, as the entire program is student run. “Everything that’s planned—all the money that we get—is all the result of student efforts,” says Yi Wei ’10, the organization’s spokeswoman. This year’s success goes to show that their efforts paid off both inside and outside the classroom.THE ACADEMIC SIDE: IT IS A HARVARD PROGRAM, AFTER ALLThe conferences on both sides of the Pacific center on a given academic theme...
...stood on the deck that day and watched one of the farmers who worked the watermelon patch, an older woman who would later introduce herself to us as Liu Yi, as she stared back at me across the river. I remember thinking to myself, My god, what must be going through her mind? Not only is the land she works on about to disappear, but there's this foreigner standing over there staring at her. Where did he come from and, more to the point, what in the world is he doing out here? The short answer is that...
...their admissions policies regarding Asian Americans. In 1990, the federal government investigated Harvard for discriminating against Asian applicants. The investigation found that lower admission rates for Asians—despite somewhat stronger academic credentials—could be attributed to legacy and athlete preferences, which primarily benefited white applicants. Yi Chen ’09, co-president of the Asian American Association, said that she didn’t think too much about her ethnicity when applying to college. “Harvard is hard to get into, period,” Chen said. “You just appreciate...