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More than 200 student activists from across the country gathered in Boylston Hall this weekend for the December Darfur Conference, sponsored by the national student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).Over the weekend, STAND elected eight members to its national executive committee, launched a network connecting students fighting Darfur genocide, and kicked off a campaign to urge national politicians to take action on the issue.Students from Harvard, Brandeis University, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College organized the anti-genocide conference, which brought college and high school students from around the country. They came to attend workshops and organize...
Actor-writer Blair Underwood spoke to a group of over 50 people about his views about children and parenting on Saturday in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium.Underwood was invited by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for the Complexities of Color writer’s series to discuss his book, “Before I Got Here: The Wondrous Things We Hear When We Listen To The Souls of Our Children.”Underwood said his book outlines his belief that children have a surprising insight that comes from a connection they have to their...
...questions inspired by computer science. Robinson, also a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, is now working towards her Ph.D. in American studies at Boston University. But many of the poems in her book were written in the Harvard creative writing classes Robinson took as a graduate and undergraduate. Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric Jorie Graham was one of Robinson’s teachers, and Graham, who won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, helped Robinson begin to organize her poetry into book form.“I don’t think I write biographical poems at all?...
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...University Hall’s collection—a Student Center Czar—to examine the best way to create a centrally located student center now. For starters, we suggest investigating building on the property that is currently the Inn at Harvard or, better yet, making Boylston Hall into a student center. Language and other departments that currently occupy office space in Boylston could move to Hilles or another convenient space. As it is, Boylston is underutilized, and its central location makes it a prime candidate for conversion...