Harvard

Administrators at Harvard outlined a plan last week to shorten the school’s exam period, which would push some exams into the evening.

The proposed exam schedule, announced at the school’s Committee on Undergraduate Education meeting, would shrink exam periods from eight days to six, according to the Harvard Crimson.

A woman who was injured in a U-Haul truck accident during the annual Harvard-Yale football game in New Haven, Conn., in November is suing both the U-Haul Company of Connecticut and Yale junior Brendan Ross, who was driving the truck. The incident injured two women and killed another.

After more than 40 years of excluding the Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from its campus, Harvard announced last week that it will formally recognize the group.

The University received a total of 26,663 applications to the Class of 2016, as announced in a press release last week, marking a 1.93- percent decrease in the total number of applications over last year’s numbers. Last year’s regular admission applications totaled 27,189.

This year’s total includes the 3,476 applications received in November for the single-choice early action program, which was reinstated in 2011. 

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating a complaint received in August that the University’s undergraduate admission process discriminates against Asian Americans.