Word: groupings
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Benjamin Z. Galper '02 will take over as the new Hillel chair, Ann E. Chernicoff '03 will become the group's new Associate Chair and Emma A. Kippley-Ogman '03 will become the new secretary...
Candidates for office submitted an application and participated in a question and answer forum in front of the group's general Steering Committee, which includes Merlin, outgoing officers and three Hillel staff members...
...they don't necessarily like because of overbearing parents and arrive at college too tired to enjoy the experience. The solution? "Bring summer back," declares the paper wistfully. It suggests that "an old-fashioned summer job" can be more valuable than high-pressure academic summer programs and pre-planned group travelling. Does that mean Harvard will stop accepting students who spent their summers doing scientific research in laboratories in preparation for their Westinghouses? Will Bronfman Youth Fellowship winners be turned back from Johnston Gate? I don't think...
...some of the pressure to create the perfect applicant by making SAT/ACT scores optional. Colleges that have already adopted this policy have found no gap in first year of grades of those admitted with SAT's and those without, despite the fact that the SAT scores of the former group were significantly higher. Optional SAT's would be a concrete step towards easing high school burnout. And it would show that Harvard can actually practice what it preaches...
HSAS urges Harvard, instead, to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a group run by labor and human rights organizations...