Listen up, America: Oprah wants background checks.
Amid a buzz of controversy about her role in invading the privacy of several Harvard staff members, Evelynn Hammonds, the Dean of Harvard College, will step down on July 1, five years and one month after she became both the first African-American and first female to occupy the highest office in Harvard's undergraduate school in June 2008.
Last week the Harvard professor said that Keynes came up with bad economy policies because he was gay and childless. Ferguson eventually apologized, but in an open letter in Tuesday's Harvard Crimson, he dug in further on the substance of his claim, that Keynes' sexuality influenced his economic policy.
In the wake of several scandals, a bunch of Harvardians are calling for a formal honor code that, once implemented and signed by students, would somehow discourage students from cheating, plagiarizing, or otherwise tarnishing the good name of Harvard. Here's why that might, but probably won't, work.
Well, this is embarrassing. Three weeks after trying to contain a scandal involving spying on administrator's email accounts, Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammands just admitted to spying spying on faculty too.
You probably saw this coming: Andrew Watkins, the former president of the Harvard quiz bowl team that was stripped of four championships for allegedly cheating, is denying that he actually cheated. But did he?
According to a "security update" posted earlier this week by the National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (which holds and judges quiz bowl tournaments), a member of Harvard's quiz bowl team will be stripped of four quiz bowl championship titles after the company caught him illicitly accessing official quiz questions before the tournaments were held.
Last night's victory of fourteenth-seeded Harvard Crimson over the third-seeded New Mexico Lobos, 68-62, drew predictable displays of celebration, and, at the same time, pretty serious accusations that Harvard, in its desire to raise the stature of its athletic program, had recruited academically ungifted (but athletically phenomenal) student-athletes.
In scanning the email of its resident deans in order to suss out the source of a leaked letter, Harvard may have made history — in setting an example for how to spy on employees in "blanket" fashion: Search 'em all to find just one, and don't tell anybody about it.
Harvard isn't sorry for snooping through the emails of more than a dozen of its own deans. On Monday the university issued a length statement explaining its secret probe into last year's massive cheating scandal, and, well, the explanation is pretty thin.
It's probably safe to say that there weren't any winners in Harvard's recent cheating scandal, but the list of losers just keeps growing. The school's 16 resident deans are the latest unlucky bunch to find themselves involved.
The New Yorker reports that the freshman Senator claimed there were 12 communists actively plotting against the government at Harvard Law School when he was a student there. But Harvard (and Chuck Hagel) shouldn't feel singled out — Ted Cruz sees anti-American plotters all over the place.
On the occasion of Facebook's ninth anniversary, pretty much the whole Internet has decided to get nostalgic. Here's how.
Between 60 and 70 Harvard students were forced to withdraw from school on Friday in the ultimate conclusion of a cheating scandal that could have happened at any school, but withdrawing probably doesn't mean what you think it does.
When Harvard geneticist George Church sat down for a casual interview with a German magazine, he wasn't trying to send out the message, "Mad Scientist Seeks Lady To Give Birth To Neanderthal Monster."
Did you hear about crazy Harvard, approving that crazy new BDSM sex club? Actually, they're hardly the first Ivy League school to recognize an organization for kinky students.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Harvard may have the fancy name, but people who go to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology made more money after graduation this year, with a median starting salary of $56,700 compared to the Cantab median of $54,100.
The interesting thing about Harvard's big plagiarism scandal, which broke Thursday, is that all 125 students involved came from the same course, and the hilarious thing is that that course was apparently "Introduction to Congress."
Discovered: A fish that fishes for mates; coma patients respond well to familiar music; fat that fights fat; and a turtle too round to eat.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Maybe this is a form of recycling? According to The Boston Globe's Mary Carmichael, CNN host and Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria gave strikingly similar commencement speeches to Duke and Harvard graduates within 11 days of each other.
Accused plagiarist Arnaud de Borchgrave, the longtime Washington Times and United Press International columnist, has friends in high places and he isn't hesitating to call on them in his own defense. But he seems to be leaning on one name more than others: Martin Kalb, one of the most celebrated figures of television journalism.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Just because we can have casual sex, should we? Questions for a sexually-revolutionized world.
The whole Bo Xilai scandal has been something of an object lesson on how not to act when you're part of China's power structure, and as the focus moves to Bo's son, Bo Guagua, that becomes even clearer for the college set.
To figure out how the financial crisis college graduates' career choices, Catherine Rampell of The New York Times' Economix blog decided to look at how many young grads are vying to getting into 1 percent through Wall Street.
One woman was killed and two others were injured when a U-Haul truck filled with beer kegs struck them in a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard Big Game on Saturday.
It's been nearly a week since Harvard guards closed and locked the gates of Harvard Yard to keep the Occupy Harvard encampment for Harvard students only, and now the inconvenience to the entire campus could serve as lesson in solidarity for the national movement.
The Harvard iteration of the Occupy protests is ironically, appropriately, and unwillingly now the most exclusive protest in the country.
Harvard's most famous dropout is heading back to campus for his first ever "official visit," and so far, he's keeping his distance from The Crimson.
On November 7, Facebook's founder will make his first official visit to his alma mater since he dropped out in 2004, and my-oh-my has he grown.
The university says Subramanian Swamy has a right to free speech
Controversy sparks debate over free speech in academia
A new study by Harvard health researchers turns heads
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has rendered the cosmos in 3-D
A Penn housecleaner tells her story, but Harvard leads the way in servants
But his name isn't cleared just yet
The Internet as a tool for terrorists, Harvard and the Qaddafis, and optimizing the budget
Sweet vindication for Amy Chua's 'chinese mother' parenting style
Saif's controversial doctoral thesis acknowledges Harvard professor Joseph Nye
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