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Rolland W. Ho '97 business manager of theHarvard Computer Society, is one of severalstudents who warn of an "e-mail barrier." Manystudents use the network only for thecommunication possibilities of e-mail and don'tknow how to access the vast amounts of informationavailable to them, Ho says...
Harvard's yearly cost will finally crack the $25,000 barrier next year, when annual student tuition and fees rise from...
...language problem is only the first barrier to understanding. Many deaf people have only a rudimentary understanding of anatomy, disease and medicine. African-American deaf people, who employ their own dialect of ASL, are yet more isolated from mainstream information -- and so more endangered. Residential schools for the deaf tend to be more puritanical than those for the hearing, and sex education is less comprehensive. Some social scientists also believe that needle drug use is higher because of alienation and loneliness. Even excluding such theories, says Susan Karchmer of Gallaudet University, the world's only four-year liberal-arts school...
Adam Gopnik, a writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches...
Although some students manage to break through the TF-student barrier, others don't tamper with it. And while love-lorn students may be frustrated by their unfulfilled longings, they can at least take comfort in the fact that their crush helps to keep them motivated. "Theta", a sophomore, says that she had a very strong crush on her match CA last year. As a result, she ended up going to every section, asking a lot of questions and turning in all her homeworks. "It got a bit ridiculous," she says. "I knew nothing could happen, so at one point...