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...open-minded, who are seriously interested in the issues higher education faces today, and who are willing to express their views and not simply rubber stamp whatever is presented to them. These are not necessarily those alums who are the biggest cheerleaders or the biggest donors to their alma mater...
...news comes less than a year after Amaker was hired by Harvard Athletics to turn around the lackluster basketball program. Amaker’s hiring was a coup for Harvard. In addition to having held an assistant-coaching position at Duke, his alma matter, the hotshot coach had held head-coaching positions at Seton Hall and Michigan before arriving at the College on the Charles...
Mike Reiss ’81 has spent years mocking a wide range of America institutions. Now, after returning to Harvard to talk about his work writing for “The Simpsons” and discuss how his time at Harvard has influenced his career, his alma mater can be added to that list. At last Thursday’s event, co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel and the Office for the Arts’ Learning from Performers initiative, Reiss entertained the audience for an hour with clips from his shows and a fittingly sharp tongue.Reiss revealed how difficult...
...crowd at Harvard Hillel yesterday as he stood at the podium. “This is weird,” said Reiss, a writer and producer of ‘The Simpsons.’ “This is not easy for me to come back to the alma mater and give a speech for free.” Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from ‘The Simpsons’ and his new show ‘Queer Duck.’ He also shared his views...
...McCulla was ready to quit her day job and move into cooking full-time. Following her husband, Brian D. Goldstein ’04, who is pursuing a Ph. D. in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, McCulla returned to Cambridge. Fortuitously, McCulla came back to her alma mater just as Jessica Zdeb, the former FLP coordinator, was leaving to become an organic farmer in France...