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...Hurlbut when I know CVS has quality assured dope? Perhaps I could have a discount with my CVS card—I know it’s on my keychain for some useful purpose. And embracing the principles of Ec 10 does not mean we have to leave poor Barker Professor of Economics Stephen Marglin and Social Analysis 72 out in the cold. By instituting a progressive tax to redress the social costs of drug use, the government can turn the war on drugs into money for its coffers. Profits will increase over time, since studies show that addiction leads...
Thompson Room, Barker Center. Oct. 25-27, from 4:00 until 5:30 p.m. Melvin Van Peebles, the maverick filmmaker best known as the writer, director and star of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance...
...Barker Center’s Thompson Room was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday, as Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick approached the podium to introduce the inaugural lecture in a series on migration and medieval culture.For the 50 audience members, the lecture, which focused on the collaboration of a physicist and an archaeologist, was more than a speech. It signaled a renewed commitment to medieval studies at Harvard.Two years ago, McCormick was awarded $1.5 million as part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation in New York. Each year, the Mellon Foundation gives five humanities scholars the Distinguished Achievement...
...argument has gained new intensity as more space has been lost to the College. As recently as 10 years ago there was more available meeting space per group, post-9 p.m. fun to be had in the Square, and a building called the Freshman Union. The union, now the Barker Center, used to serve as a student center for the freshman class. Freshmen ate their meals there, held meetings, and even got to watch cable television starting in 1993. Concentration fairs and theatrical presentations made the Union truly the hub of freshman life. This all changed in 1995, when...
...says Kidd. The structure of the administration is directly related to the use of buildings across campus. For example, freshmen used to have a student center of their own: the Freshman Union, where they ate, had meetings, and hung out. But in 1996, the Union became the Barker Center, and the freshman were unceremoniously ousted into Memorial Hall. This wasn’t the College’s initiative; it came from the superior body of FAS. According to student advocates such as Glazer, the administrative structure often means undergraduate life suffers.“I think [McLoughlin] is very...