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During her tenure as vice president, which began in 2006, Mora worked on a wide variety of projects, including financial modeling for Allston and renegotiation of reimbursement rates for Harvard research, according to the University’s initial statement about Mora’s resignation...
...life,” said Harvard football head coach Tim Murphy. “You can only continue this football thing for so long.”The choice, between the working world and the football world, is one that all three Parma Panthers had to face. Former standout wide receiver Mazza made the decision to delay graduation in 2007 after the Crimson’s less-than-spectacular 2006 season. Instead, Mazza returned to Cambridge for a fifth year to use up his athletic eligibility. That decision turned out to be a wise one, as he helped lead...
...you’re it. When, late last month, Harvard’s admissions office pulled the plug on undergraduate transfer admissions for the next two years, it extinguished the possibility of future fresh faces for current sophomores and juniors. Tragic, perhaps, but apparently necessary, thanks to a campus-wide housing crunch. The overstuffed entering classes of recent years created a bubble that was sure to burst, and burst it did; thousands of would-be transfers’ dreams of ivy-encrusted greatness have been dashed...
...think using the state standard and looking at passing, as opposed to advanced level, makes us guilty of low aim,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons, at a committee meeting when the graduation rate data for last year was publicized. Eighty-eight percent of students district-wide graduated, which was seven points higher than the 81 percent for the state. The data also showed that while white males graduated at the same rate of 84 percent as the state, black males in the district graduated at a higher rate—91 percent—which...
Mayor Nikolauk, a retired Air Force colonel and a member of the Upper Colorado River Authority, also had some contact with the FLDS leadership, especially when they ran afoul of Texas environmental rules. They were dumping raw sewage into one of the wide "draws" - the dry stream beds that can suddenly fill in heavy rains, sending water downstream to the Colorado River, a vital source for agriculture and recreation. The FLDS hired a Dallas engineer to design a sewage plant for them, but they wouldn't allow him on the land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul...