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Thirty years ago, Harvard students studying government could attend lectures by professors with names like Kissinger and Moynihan. Today, though the department as a whole is considered the best in the country, the branch devoted to the study of American politics sits, at least according to one former member, on the brink of crisis...
...certainly wasn't always this way. In a discussion a year and a half ago, former Lowell House master William H. Bossert '59 described with fondness the days when the House committee would regularly plan parties which most of the residents would attend. He attributed the declining role of the House in Harvard social life to the raising of the drinking age in the 1980s, which forced weekend activities off campus to bars in the Square and the final clubs. I think part of the demise of the House is explained by the astronomical rise in the number of student...
...real reason Cultural Rhythms should exist: to give ethnic minority and cultural organizations at Harvard an occasion to put on a show of their own. Let's be honest: there is nothing wrong with having an event about minority student interests (which non-minorities, of course, are encouraged to attend). But why couch Cultural Rhythms in the language of diversity? In the end note to this year's program, Counter tosses words like "race," "culture," "ethnicity," "cultural expression," "differences" and "sharing" into a PR stew that may taste good but satisfies no one with an appetite for deeper engagement...
...real reason Cultural Rhythms should exist: to give ethnic minority and cultural organizations at Harvard an occasion to put on a show of their own. Let's be honest: there is nothing wrong with having an event about minority student interests (which non-minorities, of course, are encouraged to attend). But why couch Cultural Rhythms in the language of diversity? In the end note to this year's program, Counter tosses words like "race," "culture," "ethnicity," "cultural expression," "differences" and "sharing" into a PR stew that may taste good but satisfies no one with an appetite for deeper engagement...
...will weigh all the variables equally, and try to obtain other variables besides race and ethnicity, such as family income and whether students will be the first generation in their families to attend college," Marshall said. "We're hoping to define diversity as broadly as possible...