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...Knock” raises questions on a far broader, deeper level than most Harvard shows achieve. Does illness exist before doctors say it does? (This is particularly appropriate for a French play, given that a similar controversy surrounded Pasteur’s “discovery” of the microbe in the nineteenth century.) To what extent do we let medicine govern our bodies more than is necessary? And it’s difficult to avoid allusions to Hitler in the stiffly crisp and completely insane figure of Dr. Knock and the mechanistic modernization he envisions...
What emerges is the broader debate over low-income students. Now that the monetary needs of financially disadvantaged students have been squared away, Harvard should turn to a different sort of philanthropy by addressing the deeper problem of the correlation between low income and inadequate academic preparation...
...studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit of two fields in separation. What is important is not the fields in themselves but the perspective we gain from them (with multidisciplinary exposure simply meaning broader perspective), and so, under the old structure, joint concentrators were forced to make connections between their interests. Now, by shifting the emphasis from gaining perspective to gaining compartmentalized sets of knowledge, secondary fields will narrow a student’s intellect, not broaden it. SARITHA KOMATIREDDY ’05 Washington, D.C. April...
...though he seems to revel in such stunts, Burkle insists that “Knock” doesn’t simply revolve around spectacle. The play is not only a farce but also a satire, and as such “Knock” poses broader questions about the will to power and the nature of authority.“With all these gags and poop jokes that you have, there’s a layer underneath talking about faith in figures, blindly following others, and accepting power without question. It’s very interesting and applicable...
...adds that the communication is part of a broader effort to determine how admitted students fare. Fitzsimmons says the admissions office conducts “validity studies” to assess how well test scores and grades predict students’ success at Harvard...