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...this in a way that few others at Harvard do. We’re concerned there will be a slowdown” under Harvard’s next president. Arjun Vasan ’07, co-president of SAA, said he felt the discussion would motivate people to study abroad and take more classes in South Asian language and culture. “Harvard does have these resources to do great things with South Asian studies,” he said. —Staff writer Joyce Y. Zhang can be reached at jyzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...various political organizations. Instead, the only men on my trip were three members of the Delphic. Liberals chastise final clubs for their supposed regression and ignorance of non-elite society, but in this case, their inconsistency was very difficult to ignore. The opportunities for American college students to study abroad has fostered a craze to jump ship for a semester or a year and study overseas. Harvard has been especially assertive. But to operate under the impression that one must leave the country in order to gain perspective is narrow-minded. A disproportionate amount of Harvard students come from...
...Arabic and explain America’s actions in a hostile region. It means having an ambassador to the United Kingdom who will engage a cynical British public in open debate. More than anything it means taking seriously once more how we select the bearers of the American eagle abroad...
...tutorial, pushing the tutorial into junior year, or opening up the fall tutorial to non-concentrators—all compromise depth of exploration. Shortening of the tutorials forces departments to unnaturally condense an already rigorous curriculum. Bleeding over into junior year impacts other valuable programs such as study abroad and senior thesis tutorials. And open admission to these tutorials will cause class sizes to bloat, destroying the intimacy and attention that tutorials are meant to provide. None of these are tradeoffs warranted by saddling students with an extra semester to flit about, lost in an unstructured, pre-concentration Harvard curriculum...
...little are the things that reassert themselves when you grow up.” Through time and experience, her interests focused on Irish music and storytelling in particular. She recalls when she realized how important Irish stories would be to her: “I was studying abroad in Cork, in Ireland, my junior year of college, and this woman took me to a ceili. She told me I had to bring a song or a story. I went and was enchanted.” After completing her dissertation in Celtic languages and literatures, Chadbourne looked to teach a course...