Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement signed by 35 people claiming to be the occupiers of Mass Hall and released to the Crimson yesterday says in part. "It is not acceptable to expel 19 students under the guise of protecting the chastity of academia, a purity already violated by the political entanglements in which Harvard is wrapped...
...appointment this week of Paul N. Ylvisaker as dean of the Graduate School of Education portends more than a shift in the way Bok will be spending his time. It points up once again that Bok operates on an administrative plane which hardly follows the normal guideposts of academia...
Disproving the false barrier between academia and the arts, Winthrop House will be doing Brecht's "The Measures Taken," a production that originated in Martin Andrucki's Humanities 96v seminar on politics and theatre. Heading in an opposite direction from Brecht's political consciousness. Eliot House will be presenting Jean-Louis Barrault's "Rabelais," a modern adaptation of Rabelais's "Gargantua" and termed by one of the production staff "a dramatic obscenity, or to be more subtle about it, a dramatic game in two parts." Dunster House, too, may well create a stir with its production of the success...
...been known to stay up working forty-eight hours at a stretch), but her views of university life are decidedly conservative. "We treat you like young adults," she says simply, "and expect you to not that way." Her faith in a university education is still strong, but academia, she feels, should not be the height of ambition. "I chose this profession because I love it. My eldest son wants to be a country doctor; that's fine with...
...Diego's program attempts, more than most, to bridge the gap between academia and the community. "Bring friends, daughters, mothers or neighbors," Barbara Kessel urges her class on the Socialization Process of Women. Teaching methods have had to be devised by trial and error. "I've erred both on too little consciousness raising and not enough," Instructor Kessel admits. She says she started out by asking her students to go out and observe women in various roles in society, but she recalls that "one girl raised her hand and asked 'What should we be looking...