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...There is safety in numbers,” Catalano said. “Try to avoid short cuts and dimly-lit areas or areas not well traveled at all cost...
...order to eliminate the financial burden on students from a typical summer of volunteering, Elias and Kalamchi have dedicated themselves to intensive grant writing, and initiated appeals to individuals, foundations and universities. By being close to but independent from Harvard, Elias and Kalamchi avoid possible donors playing the Harvard card. “People would ask, ‘You go to Harvard, so why can’t they support you?’” says Elias. Though their position as a non-profit allows them to appeal to philanthropic groups which wouldn’t normally...
Sulzberger added that the board should avoid “setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades.” Yet the slippery-slope argument is not very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...
...Crimson must also avoid focusing too much of its defensive efforts against the Black Bears’ big men. Against UNH, Harvard managed to effectively shut down Ben Sturgill, the team’s center and leading scorer coming into the game...
...authority that, compounded by signals from University officials, drives drinking underground. First-years are told during orientation week that absolutely no alcohol is permitted in the Yard dorms, that proctors will report any instances of underage drinking to the Freshman Dean’s Office and that prefects must avoid their prefectees like the plague anywhere alcohol is served. “Because of the perception of strict enforcement of drinking rules,” says a former assistant dean of freshmen who spoke on condition of anonymity, “freshmen more than anyone else tend to conceal their...