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...Harvard experiences come March, to buy into the community of a randomly assigned House. This problem is exacerbated by the presence of blocking groups; since freshmen usually block with friends from one of their improvised first-year communities, there’s no incentive to become part of the broader House community...
...It’s wonderful that they divested,” Kennedy School student Chad J. Hazlett, an organizer of the petition targeting Sinopec, said today. But, he added, “there should be discussion of a broader policy of divestment so we don’t find ourselves in this position again...
...plan, there will be optional MR-type courses, either within one of the three divisions in the General Education plan or through individual departments. This way, students can deal with moral and ethical issues from a variety of perspectives.“If one takes a broader definition,” writes Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 in an e-mail, “then a large number of courses given by our faculty in the humanities would count. In this case, it isn’t clear to me that we would need...
...largely one of inertia—“heteronormativity” notwithstanding, no one could seriously accuse the College of intentionally regulating its students’ lifestyles. Sex-segregated housing is a policy that remains in place despite our present pedagogy, in deference to a bygone regime of broader tutelage that worked well enough for centuries.In any case, there’s really no need to rely solely on tradition: Sex-segregated housing reflects mainstream American society, where young, unmarried men and women living together in close quarters is something that is frowned upon. The reasons range from...
...exhibit divergent cultural identities.For instance, the South Asian Association’s area of focus includes over 1.3 million people and dozens of languages.The group’s co-president, Arjun Vasan ’07, said that South Asian students used to be members of an even broader cross-ethnic coalition of Asians.But in 1986, South Asian students moved to “shoot off” from the pan-Asian group and concentrate on a narrower geographic base, Vasan said.“South Asia, it’s a very complex region of the world...