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Kerry M. Healey
By NOAH S. BLOOM
Kerry M. Healey ’82 was finishing the spring semester of her senior year of high school when she received an invitation from the head of the Harvard men’s crew team to try out for a selective spot as varsity coxswain. At 5’9” and with a (self-acknowledged) androgenous name, she found herself the lone woman amid some 80 men at the tryout.
Jeffrey R. Toobin
By SAMUEL P. JACOBS
As an undergraduate reporter, Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82 rode in a limousine with writer Tom Wolfe and cursed with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. But what he remembers most is the water. Lots of water.
Nicholas D. Kristof
By DANIEL J. T. SCHUKER
Nicholas D. Kristof has lived a little more dangerously than most of his classmates who graduated in 1982.
William E. McKibben
By CHRISTIAN B. FLOW
A commentator on the state of affairs at The New York Times once wrote that journalists are fond of joking about their profession’s appeal to those with extreme attention deficit disorders. Like most jokes, the humor hinges on an element of truth: namely that newsmen are often asked to cover different subjects from day to day.
Michael R. Tranfaglia
By ADITI BALAKRISHNA
Michael R. Tranfaglia ’82 was never just an average Harvard pre-med.
Andrei Shleifer and J. Bradford DeLong
By PARAS D. BHAYANI
In the fall of 1978, two students from backgrounds that could not have been less similar moved into connecting rooms in Weld Hall.
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25 Years Later, The UC Endures
By CHRISTIAN B. FLOW
If the best stories are indeed the ones that have twists and turns, then the history of the Undergraduate Council (UC) may be due for a prize.
In Face of Reagan Cuts, Low-Income Admissions Drop
By JOHANNAH S. CORNBLATT
Monday, June 04, 2007 8:43 AM
Harvard had to dig deeper into its waiting list in 1982 than it had in a decade.
Despite a years-long push to increase the diversity—economic and otherwise—of incoming classes, admissions and financial aid officials were blind-sided when, in early 1982, the Reagan Administration announced a plan to cut more than $2 billion in federal support for higher education financial aid.
'82 Study Finds Segregation
By JOHANNAH S. CORNBLATT
Gone are the days when Adams served as a haven for gay students, Currier magnetized black students, and Kirkland swarmed with jocks.
Poet Accused of Harassment
By ANGELA A. SUN
Students in the graduating class of 1982 were able to take advantage of the presence on campus of Derek Walcott, the already-prominent poet and future Nobel Prize winner, who held the post of visiting professor of English during their senior year and taught several classes.
African Studies Survives Rocky Years of Early Eighties
By KIMBERLY E. GITTLESON
Monday, June 04, 2007 9:07 AM
What’s in a name? For some, the switch from a department named Afro-American Studies to one entitled African and African-American Studies in 2003 simply reflected the department’s growing focus on two separate, although necessarily intertwined, fields of study.
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By CORMAC A. EARLY and MELISSA QUINO MCCREERY
Many of the challenges and controversies experienced at Harvard by the Class of 1982 remain important issues today.
Selected Editorials From 1981-82
Preserving Access
April 10, 1982
With higher socio-economic barriers to a college education plaguing the nation, The Crimson calls on Harvard to publicize its need-blind admissions policy.
The Undergraduate Council: Vote Yes This Week
March 15, 1982
The Crimson calls on students to ratify the Undergraduate Council's constitution...
Dissent: No Improvement
By ELIZABETH H. WILTSHIRE
...but one editor boldly disagrees
Time For Some Action
February 26, 1982
The Crimson criticizes Harvard for stalling the creation of a women's studies program.
Preserving Access
April 10, 1982
With higher socio-economic barriers to a college education plaguing the nation, The Crimson calls on Harvard to publicize its need-blind admissions policy.
Fork in the Road
By WILLIAM E. McKIBBEN
September 28, 1981
A former Crimson president on town-gown relations in 1982.
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