By Anemona Hartocollis (The New York Times). Harvard University has agreed to turn over years of confidential applicant and student records to the United States Justice Department, which has opened an aggressive investigation into whether the university has systematically discriminated against Asian-American applicants, officials said Friday. It was the first time that Harvard had agreed […]
Read More »(Fortune) by Andrew Selepak. Most people should know that if they don’t want something to be seen or read, they shouldn’t post it online. There is perhaps no more cautionary tale than former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, whose online sexting took down his own political career, and quite possibly impacted the 2016 presidential election, tilting the […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) by Herman Wong. Just a few months after her 18th birthday, Carolina Williams has suddenly hit the national spotlight for 196 words that she sent to Yale University. “I never really understood the concept of viral until now,” she said. The teenager from Brentwood, Tenn., wrote a college admissions essay about her love for Papa […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) by Samantha Schmidt. The Facebook messaging group was at one point titled “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” It began when about 100 members of Harvard College’s incoming freshman class contacted each other through the university’s official Class of 2021 Facebook group. They created a messaging group where students could share memes about popular culture — a growing trend […]
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