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...Amidst rumors that black studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74 may return to Harvard, members of the African and African American Studies Department said yesterday that the issue has been a topic of discussion among faculty.Jayne Professor of Government and of Af-Am Jennifer L. Hochschild said last night that West’s possible homecoming had been in talks since the spring. “We’ve been talking about this on and off in the past six months...that it might come up in the fall,” she said. The department...
...major change amidst all this constancy was the disappearance of “The Da Vinci Code” from the bestseller ranks. Author Dan Brown’s juggernaut was most likely done in by the ploddingly dull film adaptation released in May. It should be mentioned that Ron Howard directed, even though his name is synonymous with ploddingly dull...
...start date, which has not yet been finalized, will be chosen so that the MAC will re-open next September, making optimal use of the summer months. Summer, however, will never be seven months long.Students are rightfully concerned about the repercussions of the MAC’s closing. Amidst the flurry of concern, a “Save the MAC” petition has gathered around 330 signatures. Where is CityStep going to practice? Or Taekwondo? What about varsity fencing? Volleyball? Wrestling? What will happen to intramural sports? And yoga classes? Not to mention...
...amidst the hydrogen hype, few have noted where the new fuel comes from: fossil fuels. As it stands, burning hydrogen reduces neither demand for fossil fuels nor emissions of carbon dioxide, because almost all the hydrogen used today comes from natural...
...Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde”. Frequenters of the Kong may look to C-40, “The Chinese Literati.” Of course, the classes’ specificity means that one could very easily drown in terrible boredom amidst the German Colonial Imagination if one didn’t have a pre-existing interest in the subject. We particularly recommend Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s course, C-20, “The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga”, which talks about lots of battles and killing...