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Turnout was up this year—20,080 ballots were cast compared with 17,688 two years ago??€”a trend widely attributed to both DeBergalis’ voting registration drive on campuses and to the fact that voters came out to weigh in on a controversial ballot question on rent control...
Chair of the Department of Germanic Literatures and Languages Eric Rentschler—a key figure in the development of Harvard’s film studies program since his arrival as a tenured member of the department five years ago??€”echoes this view of the project, saying he hopes the concentration will take the resources already present at Harvard and “give them programmatic sense...
...absurd as it may seem to the uninitiated—and as impossible as it would have been for me to predict a few years ago??€”it has been Radcliffe, which used to be the women’s college here at Harvard, that has helped to define my undergraduate experience and my understanding of my university and its history. That history is still unfolding, and the shockingly imbalanced ratio of female to male tenured Harvard faculty alone makes clear that there are still miles to go before we sleep. (Only 18.3 percent of senior faculty members...
When my parents were children—and it’s true, the 1950s were ages ago??€”people grew up in cities or towns or even neighborhoods. They self-identified with these places, these distinctly different hometowns, and were tied irrevocably to them. More than just Americans, they were citizens of their hometowns...
Today is the day of reckoning for the embattled California Governor Gray Davis as he faces the recall effort that seeks to end his tenure. That the policies of Davis’ short-lived second term—he was reelected less than a year ago??€”have been distressing may be an understatement. The repercussions of his recall, however, may take a far more harrowing toll on the stability of the Golden State as well as set an unwanted precedent for the office of Governor...