After imprecise Pre-Term Planning data led to another semester of unexpected rises and dips in course enrollment this spring, administrators are considering making changes to the tool.

In the Miss Boston Pageant Sunday evening, Kelsey A. Beck ’14 took home first place, earning the title of “Miss Boston 2012.” Beck, a newcomer to the pageant world, will compete in the Miss Massachusetts Pageant on June 29 and 30 in Worchester. If she wins in the June pageant, Beck will go on to compete for the title of “Miss United States.”

Just when you thought Harvard couldn't get anymore star-studded, it threw Oprah into the mix.

Lately, Kelsey A. Beck ’14 has been in training. She is preparing not for a sports game but for a beauty pageant—the Miss Boston 2012 competition which she will enter in two weeks.

Students flocked to economics-related courses this spring, with Economics 10 defending the title it held in the fall as the largest course of the semester and spring’s Statistics 104: “Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics” coming in second place.

It is easier to gain early admission to Harvard College than get into a class with Harry Potter on the syllabus. While Harvard College admitted 18 percent of its early applicants in December, Professor Maria Tatar only admitted 10.5 percent of interested students to her class Folklore and Mythology 90i: “Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature.”

Between 2 and 4 p.m., Sever 113 was supposed to host students shopping Government 1093: “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature.” But by 3:30 p.m., Sever 113 was empty. Three words were written in chalk on the blackboard: “Go to Sanders.”

As you toil over the decision to study modernism or climate change, the Program in General Education has assembled a series of trailers that allows you to combine your love of Vimeo with the necessity to course shop.

Esteemed author Jodi L. Picoult advocated greater reproductive rights for gay couples, a theme explored in her latest novel, in an appearance Thursday at Memorial Church.

Esteemed writer Gay Talese—considered one of the fathers of the “new journalism” style in the 1960s—spoke to a crowd of fans and writers about narrative journalism in Boylston Hall on Friday.