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...elite colleges—gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan-Anne Arbor, Cornell, Bucknell, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Southern California. These schools in turn will commit a composite $20.5 million of their own money to the program. The foundation said its ultimate goal is to have the success of the eight colleges act as a model for other selective schools to increase their...
...repeated phone calls and e-mails requesting comment last night.A reviewer with a distinctive style, Sylvester was known and read widely in underground music circles. He also co-founded a record company, Beekeeper Records, and invited cult indie band Exploding Hearts to perform at the Spee, an all-male Mt. Auburn Street final club.“I’ve heard a lot of people had mixed feelings about him,” said Evan L. Hanlon ’08, who said he knew of Sylvester through Pitchfork and friends. “But generally, he was well...
...outside, and the sky was really bright and smoky,” she said. Alex Slack ’06, who is a former editorial chair of The Crimson, also witnessed the activity outside the restaurant. According to Slack, police had blocked off the portion of JFK Street between Mt. Auburn Street and Eliot Street, and three firetrucks responded to the fire. But Kenneth Zimmerman, who was finishing a drink at The Red House when the fire took place, said all of the activity was an overreaction. “It was really just a small chimney fire that just...
...Cabot House tutor will climb Mt. Everest this August to raise charity funds for a hospice for terminally ill children. “It’s about doing something I want to do and for a good cause,” said Myles G. Osborne, Ph.D. candidate in History and African Studies, who will be the only member of his expedition that is climbing for charity. Osbourne said he plans to donate the money to Naomi House, a hospice in southern United Kingdom. “I always had the climb in the back of my mind...
...continues this afternoon with a 2:30 panel on human rights in Ticknor Lounge, featuring—among other speakers—the former U.S. ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, who now teaches at the Kennedy School. It concludes tomorrow night with a fund-raising dance party at the Mt. Auburn Street bar Hoffa’s. Whether or not students actively participate, the IMPACT organizers said they hope everyone will support their mission—if only by opting for their palatable—and principled—fruits. The bananas “taste amazing to those that...