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This discourse between hip-hop and academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good...
This discourse between hip-hop and academia is starting to flow both ways. Courses like Literature and Arts A-86, “American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac” pack lecture halls at Harvard. After reading Aesop’s lyric “the villain of my Kabuki hologram cuz I hobble with hollow hands” (from the titular track of 1999’s “Float”), an enthusiastic Professor of English and American Literature and Language Gordon L. Teskey felt compelled to mention that “a good...
...uproar they can stir—a debate was borne, inciting some serious discussion about a controversial and complicated issue. Though we disagreed with Summers’ conflation of divestment with anti-Semitism, the silver-lining was that it ultimately encouraged educated discourse, one of the foremost goals of academia...
Instead of unfairly reproaching student groups for the speakers they choose to bring to campus, it would be more encouraging for the sake of bringing awareness to the issue if student groups offended by the panel sought out speakers to come present their side. In the name of academia, this should be expected...
Though this comes in the midst of intense discussion on Harvard’s campus about the role of women in academia, Richard J. Tarrant, chair of the committee which selects the speakers, said the only thing considered when choosing the orators from a competitive pool of 50 applicants was the quality of the speeches...