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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 16, 2007
Frat brothers at Nicholls State University steal bundles of the student newspaper; Harvard students host the "Juban Celebration"; Washington State offers TiVo to students; A plaque is stolen from a Kansas State frat
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 15, 2007
Ambitious Harvard student downloads more than 5 million Factiva articles; North Carolina fire killed seven UNC and Clemson students; A mouse causes a power outage at University of Minnesota
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Learning to Lead
By Susan Headden -
Nation & World
- November 12, 2007
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
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Brawling in Boston? Surprise: Not About the Red Sox!
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 29, 2007
A Harvard after-party gets rowdy, and surprisingly, it wasn't even about the Red Sox.
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Facebook Friends Microsoft
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 25, 2007
For just $240 million, Microsoft has secured a 1.6 percent stake in the social networking site founded by Harvard dropout, Mark Zuckerberg.
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A History of Controversial Campus Speakers
Nation & World
- October 1, 2007
Controversial campus speakers have been strongly protested with everything from petitions to pies.
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Blacks and Law School Discrimination
By Michael Barone -
Michael Barone
- August 29, 2007
Report shows that racial admission preferences end up hurting the very people they were intended to help.
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Ten Things You Didn't Know About Michael Chertoff
By Jennifer O'Shea -
Nation & World
- August 27, 2007
Trail Mix
By Kenneth Terrell and Jackie Mantey -
The Paper Trail
- August 1, 2007
Daily updates from campuses nationwide.
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The Cost of Being Black
By Jackie Mantey -
The Paper Trail
- July 10, 2007
Wannabes on VH1's White Rapper Show aside, a new study says that the average white person would have to be paid around $10,000 to become black permanently, reports the Lantern. The relatively low amount shows that "White Americans are blind to the cost of being black," as one researcher put it.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- May 10, 2007
Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover followed through on his ultimatum to not speak at the UC-Berkeley commencement unless the school resolved its wage dispute with its custodial workers, the Daily Californian reports. University Chancellor Robert Birgeneau spoke instead, while protesters picketed outside the ceremony.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- January 12, 2007
Identity theft and imposture so good it's "pathological" are ingredients in the story of Esther Elizabeth Reed, who New York authorities say has stolen identities in order to attend California State University at Fullerton, Harvard, and now Columbia, where she enrolled as a graduate student under a missing woman's name for two years before she got caught, the New York Post reports .
Two students from Harvard but none from the University of Chicago are members of this season's Beauty and the Geek cast, a fact that makes one Chicago Maroon editor very unhappy.
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Newspapers Agree: Harvard Might Want a Woman. But Does a Woman Want Harvard?
The Paper Trail
- January 8, 2007
The next Harvard president could be a woman, report the New York Times and the Harvard Crimson, in nearly identical stories today, both of which cite a December Crimson report that one list of contenders included at least five women. Among that list: the female presidents of three other Ivy League universities--all of whom have said they are not interested in the job.
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The Best Way to Get a Job at Harvard: Marry Someone Harvard Wants
The Paper Trail
- December 15, 2006
Wining, dining, and housing are perks, but to get a big professor to come to Harvard, just one trick has proved a "showstopper": find her husband a job, too. Once the university decides on a recruit, university workers will call his or her spouse--and then "call anybody that has any relationship to anything the person does," a staff member tells the Crimson.
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Harvard Group Backs Out of Religion Requirement
The Paper Trail
- December 13, 2006
A Harvard group charged with remaking the curriculum has decided not to ask all students to study religion after all. Instead, the task force will recommend students take a class on "what it means to be a human being.
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Students Spend Weekend as "Party Investigators"
The Paper Trail
- December 11, 2006
"Official council business" brought Undergraduate Council representatives at Harvard to parties this past weekend, the Crimson reports. The student government reps were charged with making sure parties were actually being held in their alleged locations.
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The Paper Trail
- December 11, 2006
South Carolina has become the latest SEC school to get a live mascot, the Daily Gamecock reports. The new mascot is a 13-year-old English black-breasted red gamecock named Sir Big Spur.
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The Paper Trail
- December 7, 2006
Before graduation, University of Arizona students will be searched--for tortillas, which students traditionally toss into the air, the Daily Wildcat reports . "A tortilla, especially if it is dried, can really injure someone," the associate dean of students explains.
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To Find a President, Harvard Considers Poaching From Peers
The Paper Trail
- December 5, 2006
The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania are among the candidates for the job of Harvard University's next president, reports the Harvard Crimson, tipped off to a list of 30 names that seems not to include any Washington types. Some had whispered that Condoleezza Rice and Bill Clinton might be among the candidates, but the higher-ed-heavy list shouldn't be much of a surprise.
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In Last Year of Early Apps, Harvard, Princeton See Rise
The Paper Trail
- December 1, 2006
The schools that aren't cutting their early admissions programs may have seen a decline in applicants--but Harvard and Princeton, which won't be accepting anyone early after this year, have seen the opposite pattern. Yale's dean of admissions told the Yale Daily News the schools might be benefiting from the publicity surrounding their announcements.
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Harvard Researcher Has New Plan for Middle East Peace: Take a Walk
The Paper Trail
- November 16, 2006
Both Jews and Muslims claim Abraham as their forefather. The director of a Harvard Law School center called the Global Negotiations Project thinks they should remember that claim, and he wants to help them do it, the Crimson reports.
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Harvard Students Fear They've Been Pranked Again
The Paper Trail
- November 9, 2006
Just a week before their Crimson football team takes on its biggest rival, Yale, Harvard students received E-mail notification that they'd receive big prizes for doing a strange thing: screaming about how much they love blue -- the traditional Yale color. But don't worry, Harvard students, JetBlue officials assured the Crimson yesterday.
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One More Reason Your Kids <i>Must</i> Get Into Harvard
By Rick Newman -
America's Business
- October 6, 2006
Did you know that Harvard people think they're special?
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