One of my favorite novels is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise,” which I’ve read twice and recommend to anyone looking for a Fitzgerald novel other than “The Great Gatsby.” The novel chronicles the coming of age of Amory Blaine, an imaginative and intelligent student who comes ...
New study finds nationwide spike in science and engineering degrees The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded nationally in engineering and the sciences rose over the past five years by a substantially higher rate than those in other fields, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. The ...
Presidential campaigns are often most remembered for video clips or soundbytes that come to define candidates’ personas for voters. During the 2012 campaign, Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was plagued by a video of himself speaking at a private fundraiser ...
Racial impacts on policing practices was the focus of a teach-in held in a packed Salomon 101 Thursday in the wake of the cancellation of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s lecture Tuesday. The teach-in featured a panel of five faculty members who addressed the history and social context ...
A lead food service worker for Brown Dining Services, Manuel Gomes, has died at the age of 39, the University learned yesterday. Gomes’ death was unexpected, wrote Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn in an email to The Herald. She did not confirm further details ...
Gender-neutral housing may receive vote from Harvard undergrads Activists garnered the number of signatures required for their petition to put up universal gender-neutral housing for undergraduate vote, the Harvard Crimson reported Tuesday. Harvard, like Brown, does not allow gender-neutral housing ...
The Corporation will consider President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan draft at its meeting this weekend and discuss holding a vote on divesting the University’s endowment from large coal-affiliated companies, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy. Members of the ...
Princeton to review grade deflation policy Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber announced Monday that he will form a faculty committee to review the university’s grade deflation policy over the coming year, the Daily Princetonian reported Monday. The current policy requires that academic departments ...
Harvard kicks off $6.5 billion capital campaign Harvard announced Sept. 21 that it hopes to raise a historic $6.5 billion with its new capital campaign, the Harvard Crimson reported Saturday. Achieving this target amount would make this capital campaign, known as the Harvard Campaign, the largest ...
Federal officials announced an indictment Thursday of Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen’s P’08 P’16 hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors L.P. for multiple counts of fraud. The indictment did not include any charges against Cohen himself. Prosecutors allege that multiple divisions and employees ...
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