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...notion that young people—here at Columbia or anywhere in any university—aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake,” Obama said at the ServiceNation presidential forum hosted by Columbia earlier this month...
Neal said that none of the schools have responded yet, but the presidential candidates’ comments at the forum have already sparked debate on the issue at Columbia, according to The Columbia Spectator. —Paras D. Bhayani contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...said that the purpose of the discussion panel was not to start an argument between students and Deresiewicz, but instead to “talk about what the purpose of elite education should really be.” “I just really hope that this becomes a forum that inspires more discussions,” Kim said. “We are at Harvard. We have to know why we are here.” The Undergraduate Committee of the Humanities Center at Harvard hosts two undergraduate discussion panels annually, with the goal of inspiring interdisciplinary discussion...
...annual Office of Career Services Career Forum included the usual big names: the CIA, Abercrombie & Fitch, NASA, and... Lehman Brothers?... Oh, wait. While many students and recruiters were out in full force at Gordon Track last Friday, lots of the big finance companies failed to make an appearance at the Office of Career Services Career Forum. But that’s not to say that the rockin’ fair was full of doom and gloom. One company that seemed determined to keep the good times coming, despite the plunging economy, was Facebook. “Everyone is very smart...
...That was brought home to me at a World Economic Forum conference in China last weekend, when I found myself (these things happen) at dinner with three Swedish entrepreneurs. They were, as you would expect, fun, clever, technologically up to the minute. And I thought: What do Sweden and China have in common? Just this, perhaps: one already rich, one rapidly becoming richer, neither nation is in thrall to American verities on the ways in which societies should be organized...