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Since then, Campos has served as president of RAZA, but after completing his term mid-junior year, he has since turned his attention to his studies. He wants to use his Harvard education to gain a leadership role in the Mexican-American community so that he is in a good position to address these issues in the future...
...Plans must win approval from a series of neighborhood commissions and zoning boards, but the University has yet to gain a single permit...
...promotion of student-run businesses--through which students may enter the University to gain in profits as well as wisdom--inevitably conjures up the spectre of crass, unlearned, Visigothic commercial interests laying siege to the ivory tower of liberal arts education. However, although it is first and foremost an institution of arts and sciences, the College is aware that most students would like later to find gainful employment. The technology institute may, very much like the Institute of Politics and the Office of Career Services, benefit students by promoting activity in a non-academic field that augments the academic experience...
...early to say what role the technology boom will have in changing Harvard; the full effects will likely go far beyond entrepreneurship institutes, class websites or programs in distance education. However, it would be a great loss if the College, in an attempt to gain leadership in technology and to prepare students for commercial success after graduation, loses sight of its academic mission and full potential. Harvard must continue to keep these criteria in mind, no matter how sweet the silicon siren's call...
...cross-purposes built into Lowell's plan actually highlight the importance he wanted the Houses to have for Harvard students. Though some alumni and students--partisans of final clubs, in large part--objected to Lowell's attempt to gain control of students' lives beyond the lecture hall, his plan met with immediate success. In their first year, all of the Houses were booked full...