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...greats like Bach and Beethoven.Now, Music concentrators will be required to take a class in non-Western music—Music 51c: “World Music History and Repertory”—which will be taught next year for the first time by Music and African and African-American Studies Professor Kay K. Shelemay.FLEXIBILITY BUILT ON A ‘COMMON GROUND’This year’s concentration changes also reflect a desire to give students leeway to pave their own path within their concentration—but not before they take classes that ground...
...African and African American Studies departments. “I’m extremely happy both for her and for the College because I think it’s only in the best interest of the students that we’ll be able to take classes with her and we’ll be able to be exposed to her mind and her enthusiasm for the material,” said former student and thesis advisee Andrew C. Coles ’09. Carpio arrived at Harvard in 2002, following the widely-publicized departure of African American studies Professors...
...Additionally, if appointed Dean, Wilkins would be the first black administrator to hold the position. Currently, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds is the only African-American leading a school at the University...
...other around-the-clock political news stations definitely had their hands full this year. Along with the election of the nation’s first African-American president came many other important political controversies and watershed moments. In the year of change, we supported expanding freedoms in areas such as stem cell research and homosexual rights. We asked for more accountability among elected officials and backed a large stimulus to help jumpstart our economy. Most importantly, we believed—and still do—that Barack Obama was the correct choice for the 44th President of the United States.This...
...vocational school. But the student who uses scholarship and words to resist the authoritarianism and the injustice of senescent power gets an A for the lessons of Harvard College. In the history of Harvard, many students and professors will mistake the socialist student activism of the 1930s, the African-American and anti-ROTC activism of the ‘70s, the South African divestment activism of the ‘80s, and the workers’ rights activism of the ‘90s for rebellions against the university. In fact, they are the new fruits of knowledge fertilized...