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...hear an extended composition in the jazz context, so when the Harvard Jazz Band under the direction of Tom Everett performed not one but two fully composed jazz suites last Friday night, it was a truly rare treat. Last Friday night's concert featured popular New Orleans clarinetist Alvin Batiste playing alongside the students from the band. Batiste's performance capped off a week in residence at Harvard, the latest in the series of internationally-acclaimed jazz musicians who have worked with students through the Office for the Arts's "Learning from Performers" program. In recent years, such geniuses...
About 3,500 students rioted the night before the Harvard-Yale contest, in a drunken demonstration that began at 11:10 p.m. outside a neighborhood bar called Cronin's. The Crimson reported that "according to University police chief Alvin R. Randall, it made last year's Princeton fracas look like 'peanuts.'" Cambridge police called it "the biggest disturbance since...
...Alvin L. Bragg '95, who served as BSA president before Clarke, said last spring that conservative blacks tend to feel uncomfortable participating in the organization's political activities...
That sounds compelling, but so do the views of Dr. Alvin Poussaint, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who is black. "If you have a movement to fight racism, there has to be moral authority and moral consistency," he says. "That's what the moral dilemma is. At some point, we're going to have to face it, and Minister Farrakhan is going to have to face it. He can't be talking out of both sides of his mouth on the racism issue and not recognize and have no concern about how his own remarks are interpreted...
...training conformity to social expectations." The danger is that any campaign to hone emotional skills in children will end up teaching that there is a "right" emotional response for any given situation--laugh at parades, cry at funerals, sit still at church. "You can teach self-control," says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "You can teach that it's better to talk out your anger and not use violence. But is it good emotional intelligence not to challenge authority...