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...Johnson-Sirleaf. “She represents a role model for many of our students.” Swanee G. Hunt, former ambassador to Austria and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS, called Johnson-Sirleaf “a beacon for progressive leadership across Africa and the world.” After growing up in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia, Johnson-Sirleaf graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1964, where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority founded by black women. Following her time at HKS, Johnson...
...Today, Harvard students study Asia, Africa, and South America not because of these regions’ potential to create “trouble” (oh, those pesky non-whites!) or to be used as communist pawns, but because the University recognizes the inherent value in understanding “non-Western” cultures and histories. The class of 2008’s graduates had the option to concentrate in African and African American studies, East Asian languages and civilizations, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, and Sanskrit and Indian studies. But what is still missing from Harvard?...
Harvard crushed my idealism and neither the 14-year-old who wanted to go to Africa as an obstetrician or the gung ho girl who thought college journalism was so, so important will make it out of here. But, it turns out, that’s not such a bad thing. At the risk of sounding too Ferris Bueller, college made me believe less in -isms, but more in myself...
...that defining my own life by achievements or under ideological categories is a vacuous exercise. Strides we make within the Yard only matter if they break down barriers or effect change elsewhere. I do sincerely hope that a female President of Harvard will inspire girls in China and Africa to greatness or that the articles we published at The Crimson opened some eyes or encouraged administration decisions...
...Bacon was an ordained minister who was appointed by the U.S. government and the American Colonization Society to colonize Africa with freeborn blacks from the United States. His two companions died in Sierra Leone, and Bacon moved to Kent where his health steadily declined...