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Tiger Mother's Daughter Accepted at Harvard
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt looks like the iron-fisted tiger mother's hard work paid off: Her 18-year-old daughter has been accepted at Harvard. Amy Chua, a Chinese-American mother and Yale professor, sparked controversy earlier this year with her memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," in which she recounts her philosophy of ultra-strict parenting. Her two daughters were never allowed to attend sleepovers, watch TV, choose their own extracurricular activities or get any grade less than an A. "Children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences," Chua wrote in a Wall ...
The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsLiving with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan Bittner's SplitTheRent.org has an online calculator that can serve as an arbiter of fairness, aiding housemates in divvying up the rent based on room size and amenities. Courtesy Jonathan Bittner If sharing an apartment with a roommate is hard, then finding a fair way ...
Harvard, Navy to Sign Agreement on ROTC Return
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON - The Reserve Officer Training Corps' four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday that will establish the Naval ROTC's formal presence on campus for the first time since the Vietnam War era, the university announced Thursday. ROTC first exited amid anti-war sentiment, and the school lately kept it off campus and stopped funding the program because of the ...
Peter J. Gomes, the Indispensable Man
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyEtched on the walls of the main sanctuary in Harvard's Memorial Church are the names of the Harvard men who lost their lives in military service during World War II. The most familiar and impressive -- and the oldest name on the wall -- is Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904. For the first-time visitor, that usually takes a moment to register. Then comes the flicker of recognition. Yes, our commander-in-chief died while war still waged in the Pacific. Franklin Roosevelt was in his fourth term in office when he passed this vale, and although many Americans couldn't imagine his job being ...
Meet Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's No-Nonsense Girlfriend
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsMark Zuckerberg is dealing with some privacy concerns of his own. TMZ says Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda, who reportedly followed the Facebook founder and attempted to contact him in person and online, sending disturbing messages through (what else?) Facebook. The restraining order forbids Manukonda from going within 300 yards of Zuckerberg and his sister Randi, Facebook's marketing director. Also protected in the order is Priscilla Chan, Zuckerberg's longtime girlfriend. So who is the woman, to borrow Facebook's terminology, Zuckerberg ...
'Pants' Up, 'Trousers' Down on Google's Ngram Viewer
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Dec. 17) -- Never one to be caught resting on its laurels, Google has released a massive, searchable database that will give linguists and historians a new tool for quantitatively understanding how language and culture have changed over time. It also makes for a good time-waster on languishing Fridays before the holidays. The Books Ngram Viewer, which Google created with the Encyclopedia Britannica and scientists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes 500 billion words from 5.2 million digitized books and allows you to track their usage over time. The result is a ...
Harvard: Urine on Gay Books Was Accident, Not Hate Crime
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- Those gay-themed books that were soaked with urine at a Harvard College library were not a hate crime after all, the school says, but a simple accident caused by a staffer who spilled a bottle of liquid waste on 36 tomes. Why a bottle of urine was sitting on a library shelf in the first place has yet to be explained. "This incident was initially reported as vandalism and characterized as a hate crime," Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, wrote Monday on the university's website. "We have learned this morning that the books, while indeed damaged, were damaged by our own ...
Scientists Find Fountain of Youth ... in Mice
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- Scientists have been able to reverse the aging process in mice, a stunning feat that may help regenerate organs in elderly humans, according to a new study published online in the journal Nature. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School turned weak and feeble old mice into healthy rodents by regenerating their aged bodies. OJO Images When scientists increased levels of the enzyme telomerase in the mice, their organs began to rejuvenate, according to a new study. "These mice were equivalent to 80-year-old humans and were about to pass ...
Vuvuzelas Banned From Annual Harvard-Yale Game
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- Except for an annoying horn and a prognosticating octopus, the World Cup is by now a fading memory. When Paul the Octopus passed on in October, months after the sea oracle accurately predicted the outcome of eight World Cup contests, it was an occasion for global mourning. Meanwhile, the world has tried, in vain, to kill off the vuvuzela, the signature horn that provided the discordant background buzz to every game in South Africa. The latest attempt comes from the stodgy powers at Harvard ahead of their annual tradition-laden football contest with Yale. Harvard students had ...
Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Grow
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 15) 00 The club of private college and university presidents earning seven figures is getting less exclusive. Thirty presidents received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008, according to an analysis of federal tax forms by The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than 1 in 5 chief executives at the 448 institutions surveyed topped $600,000. Most of the pay packages were negotiated before the full force of the recession. But even if the numbers dip slightly in next year's survey, executive pay is expected to keep climbing over the long term as colleges compete for top ...
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