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...Department of African and African American Studies voted unanimously yesterday to push forward with the tenure case of hip hop scholar Marcyliena Morgan, whose last bid for tenure at Harvard two years ago was blocked by then-President Lawrence H. Summers.If Morgan and her husband, sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo, accept Harvard’s entreaties, the move will allow the Af-Am Department to regain some of the star power that it lost during Summers’ five-year term. Bobo previously was the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, and Af-Am faculty...
...signature harmonic language, that builds to a rousing climax,” says Jones. The services are fully participatory, with audience members singing all of the hymns, and the choir also hopes to include the congregation in its tradition of giving to charity. After services, choir members will accept donations for Casa Nueva Vida in Jamaica Plain. “This year the choir voted on children, domestic violence, and education as the top three types of causes it would like to support. Casa Nueva Vida combines these initiatives as a special interest homeless shelter which provides job training...
...think his style was different in the two situations,” Mills wrote yesterday of Summers’ political and academic roles. “There are many people who think President Summers was trying to provide good leadership, but that Harvard’s faculty would not accept it,” Mills added. During his tenure as University president, Summers made headlines for his often conflictive relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and for his now-infamous remarks about the intrinsic aptitude of women in science. Summers announced his resignation in February, days before...
...wants to. Born to a culture that rejects blackness as code word for Haitian (Dominicans, they say, speak Spanish and are civilized), he’s now well adjusted. His experiences alongside his brethren in heavily-Hispanic South Florida, and outside that bubble, have led him to accept this truism: color matters. And my mother accepts that. She acknowledges that we all do not fit harmoniously under the banner of pan-ethnicity, that even within this ideal of unity, political coalition, and shared identity, those stigmatized few will fall by the wayside, will remain stranded on the outskirts. But there?...
...come to accept my outsider status,” says anthropology and comparative study of religion concentrator Nathan J. Dern ’07. Lead singer of Star Wars tribute band So Long Princess and hopeful stand-up comic, Dern has indie status on this campus. But come this January, with the premiere of the CW Television Network’s third season of “Beauty and the Geek,” it just might be the case that Dern’s outsider status is revoked for good. Last April, while handing out flyers for his improv...