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...goalie on the Harvard hockey team, he worked for dorm crew and class reunions to earn extra money as an undergraduate. At the April forum, he told students, “I was angry when I arrived here...
...Taking the microphone at a forum on socioeconomic diversity last April, a Harvard undergraduate opened up about the culture shock he had experienced after arriving in Cambridge as a freshman. The student, who hailed from a working-class background, said he found himself alienated by the wine-and-cheese atmosphere on campus. He then gestured to the back of the room...
...forum took place a little over a year after University President Lawrence H. Summers introduced the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), which sharply cut the parental contribution for families with less than $60,000 in annual income, and the gastronomic gaffe demonstrated the difficulties facing the College as it works to promote the highly publicized program...
...while Byerly makes a concerted effort to attract disadvantaged students, Fitzsimmons remains sympathetic to the hurdles faced by applicants who hail from wealth. “We’re beating the life out of students with privilege,” he told students at the April forum, describing the regimen of test prep, Advanced Placement courses, and parental pressure in college-crazed communities where university acceptance can be more status symbol than golden opportunity...
...simple as either The HRC or this page would make it seem; what’s needed instead is a redesign of student government at Harvard.According to its present Constitution, the UC’s purpose is, among other things, “to serve as a campus-wide forum for the expression and exchange of student ideas and opinions.” Passing a resolution in support of Harvard’s workers is, therefore, entirely within the UC’s institutional purview. But even though it turns out that the UC is technically within its rights...