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As costs for tuition soar, college students are scrambling for ways to pay off their student debt. In the latest exposé by Huffington Post, we're clued into this alarming new trend of higher education students turning to online sugar-daddy websites to pay for school. The "arrangements" many of the members agree to often include sex and some sort of money transaction. One such website, Read more
We constantly advocate professional development here on Savvy, and it's nice to see celebrities take heed of that as well. Entrepreneur and former Victoria's Secrets model Tyra Banks has enrolled in Harvard's Owner/President Management Program (it's not an MBA) since last year, and is enjoying herself immensely, according to US Weekly. The program is taught in sessions spanning three weeks over Read more
Joe Jonas will be guest-judging tonight's Top Chef Quickfire. — Grub Street SF A sneak peek at the first-ever Rolling Stone restaurant in America.— Eater LA Legendary Charm City crab house Obrycki's will shutter next year. — Chow Barbecue spaghetti: yes, you can do this! — Serious Eats Philly restaurant Adsum will hold a four-course dinner, all made with Four Loko. — Read more
First, Columbia University was tempting students with a $500 prize for whoever could talk to the most people in one week, now a Harvard junior has launched a nonromantic, matchmaking service called HarvardLunch.com. Harvard is the school that bore Facebook, so maybe it's onto something, but I've always thought of college as just as much of a social education as an academic one. Is it a sign of Read more
All drugs — pot, crack, heroin, meth, and more — should be legalized, says Harvard professor Jeffrey Miron. He says that we would be saving $41.3 billion annually, which the government spends (ineffectively) on the crackdown on drugs. People are still using drugs despite the efforts and huge amounts of money are spent to eradicate it, Miron says. Not everyone in the public is addicted to Read more
A peek at The French Laundry's intense kitchen culture. — San Francisco Chronicle The Iowa egg producer linked to the recent salmonella outbreak tested positive for the same bacteria in 2008. — New York Times In the last couple of years, néo-bistrots have offered Parisian cuisine at an affordable price. — Wall Street Journal Should food trucks have to carry health letter grades, too? — Read more
Harvard faculty, students, and the surrounding community are mulling over a disturbing incident that went down last week. Last Thursday, prominent African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested in his home after a woman saw him trying to unlock his jammed door and assumed he was a robber. Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct. According to the police report, when an officer Read more
Lukasz Zbylut, who came to America only five years ago with a limited understanding of English, has secured admission to all seven of the country's Ivy League schools. The Polish immigrant chose to accept admission to Harvard, where he plans to study politics, law, and philosophy. Of the 21 schools Lukasz applied to, only MIT rejected him. Nobody's perfect! So what's his secret? Lukasz's success Read more
Top-tier schools have been singing their fight songs in a deeper tenor these days. Engaging in an act-and-answer dance of "anything you can do I can do better," Yale announced a plan to slash tuition, following its Ivy competition to the North. Just a few weeks ago, Harvard rolled out its new tuition criteria that promises not to charge more than 10 percent of the income of families earning up Read more
Harvard, often considered the Ivy-est of the Ivy Leagues, has taken steps to make education more affordable there. I'm sure that ponytail guy in Good Will Hunting would turn his nose up at a more accessible Harvard, but I think it's a really meaningful step forward for higher education. So, how much more affordable are we talking? Tuition will be less for all students, and for many it will be Read more
