爱华网2006哈佛HAUSCR中美学生领袖峰会(HSYLC 2006)上，最惹眼的莫过于几十位来自哈佛的优秀学子。相处一个星期，小编们感受最深的是：每一个人都是那么不同！那么有趣！在选择该写谁时，小编们可是大大地头疼了一番！本版所介绍的May Habib和Allegra Richards都是哈佛的明星学生。她们究竟有何过人之处？赶快往下读吧！
It might not be so unusual for a student to run a school newspaper. But when it comes to managing the school newspaper of Harvard, it’s definitely a different story. Founded in 1873, The Harvard Crimson is a daily on the breakfast tables of students and teachers at Harvard as well as many households outside campus. What might it be like to work for such a big newspaper? Here’s what May Habib, Associate Managing Editor of The Crimson, told the SSP: “It’s one of the best experiences in my life so far.”
A busy schedule
May Habib is now in her fourth year at Harvard. She usually works 40-50 hours for the newspaper every week, in addition to being a full-time student. Due to such a busy schedule, she has no time for lessons and lectures sometimes, not to mention sports. “People in The Crimson are white and fat，” she joked.
“So many professors and teachers said the first thing they read is The Crimson. That’s why we take our job so seriously,” she said.
“Though I was a little student...”
One of the most important stories May covered is the Harvard AIDS research program in Africa. Harvard was granted a huge amount of money from the White House to do research into AIDS. However, there was a lot of controversy(争议) about the administration(管理) of the grant. A professor at the school was in charge of the project. But top administrators at the university thought the professor shouldn’t do the job because it was so important a program that just a professor couldn’t oversee the project. So they took her off the project and put in a director.
By talking to the professor, May found that the administrators delayed funding on the program for five months. She called a Nigerian doctor immediately and was told that about 420 deaths in the program were tied to the delay of the money. She thought that Harvard administrators didn’t take into account (把…考虑在内) that impact when they made the decision.
“That was really an important story. The second year the funding came out and I was told that the funding was still not released. So I started making phone calls. Two days later, they released the funding. The only reason they did it so quickly was because the press was requiring, though I was a little student,” May said proudly.
A happy girl
May is a happy girl. “My secret to stay happy is optimism(乐观). My optimism is sort of realism,” she said, “I think I’m a lucky person. Even if I didn’t go to Harvard, I would be happy as well.”
