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...bookstores and book browsing so irresistible? Well, there are some reasons, but reasons rarely tell all the story. Nonetheless, when it became clear to me—long ago??€”that I was likely to remain in academic administration indefinitely, I decided that I could not possibly keep up my scholarly existence, but that I could and would keep up my intellectual existence...
Take pictures because we will want to remember this day, if only to look on it with the faint smile of half-recognition. Like the pictures from move-in years ago??€”our broad smiles with the roommates we grew to love, or hate—these too will seem somewhat foreign. An enthusiasm we see as unwarranted for anywhere but a grandparents’ refrigerator, perhaps, or a reticence the future us cannot understand. Was today not the happiest day of our lives? If so, we were too excited to know, too tired, emotionally and physically, to think...
There is no single memory that comes to mind when I think of myself at Harvard 25 years ago??€”rather a stream of images, fitful, fleeting, snapshots that capture what historian Erving Goffman would call The Theatricality of Everyday Life...
There is no single memory that comes to mind when I think of myself at Harvard 25 years ago??€”rather a stream of images, fitful, fleeting, snapshots that capture what historian Erving Goffman would call The Theatricality of Everyday Life...
...meetings with administrators, wages and benefits for Harvard’s low-wage workers are now worse than they were two-and-a-half years ago??€”worse even than they were just six months ago. By outsourcing jobs to firms that pay poverty-level wages and benefits, Harvard administrators consciously caused conditions to deteriorate. Perhaps the best examples of this happened last year, when most of us saw our house security guards replaced by subcontracted guards from Security Systems, Inc. This was culmination of the administration’s long-term effort to force out Harvard?...