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...Harvard’s Task Force on General Education declared in its report in 2007 that “the aim of a liberal arts education is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” In and outside of the classroom, Harvard students are encouraged to explore the unexplored, to excavate the unfamiliar, and to learn in our wanderings through terra incognita just how limitless our learning...
...Rectifying this unfortunate situation is not as difficult as some might think. First, we can (and should) begin to break the silence that has stifled productive discussion of mental health issues within our community. The aim of Mental Health Week is to share knowledge about issues of mental health, to stress the importance of students’ mental and emotional well-being, and to encourage students to reach out to friends in distress. If real change is to be made, however, we must incorporate this same culture of open discussion and caring into the everyday fabric of Harvard life...
...Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and the Center for Wellness and Health Communication by welcoming them into the department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counsel; provided more education and support to residential staff; and worked to better coordinate all the programs in BHAC with the aim that students will be welcomed in any of our programs and directed to the most appropriate help. Without doubt, we are fortunate that our combined BHAC services are the best staffed, both in numbers and expertise, of any college in the country. Still, the efforts that mean the most...
...Aside from its sheer enormity, this heap of cash is also intriguing because of the “public-private investment fund” included in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s recent proposal. The potentially $1 trillion vehicle would aim to combine public and private capital to buy toxic assets from banks. Though widely criticized in its eight days of life, the fund may succeed in attracting private investors—but only if Geithner offers more specifics to incentivize private financing and subdue historic antagonism between private and public sectors, which is traditionally worse in times...
...belittle [Christakis’] qualifications.”Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, the former Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, has said in previous interviews with The Crimson that she hoped to usher minority faculty into recently opened House Master positions. That aim was furthered last Wednesday, when Hammonds announced that Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Law School lecturer Stephanie Robinson would take over as leaders of the house next fall, becoming Harvard’s first black House Masters.The Christakis family is relatively young, comprising three children, Sebastian, Lysander, and Eleni...