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...French and the Community,” is all about getting students out of the classroom. Students in the course learn about Haitian culture in addition to sharpening their French by volunteering as French tutors to Creole-speaking children aged 6 to 10 at the Haitian Community Center in Dorchester on Saturdays. Since last month’s disastrous earthquake, French 60 Senior Preceptor Carole Bergin has been working with the Harvard Haitian Alliance and encouraging her students to work as ESL tutors at the Center to help refugees in the area in addition to previous coursework...
...With our grant from DAPA, we used the money to buy flavored blood orange sodas,” says Amelia G. Mango ’10 who has been awarded grants on behalf of the Center for European Studies’ annual Garden Party and Ball. “I think DAPA fills a sort of unique need...
Student-run organizations serve as the center of Harvard life for many, providing unmatched opportunities and generating countless friendships among their members. However, many of these groups struggle to finance their day-to-day activities. Student organizations deserve additional monetary support, and would therefore benefit from exclusive access to the Student Life Fund. On the other hand, ensuring that HoCos receive supplemental checks that go toward house formals and other activities should not be a priority for the College...
Forty-five kilometers up the road over the Thompson Pass, in a muddy car park by the Tsaina River, is a small collection of cabins and the center of the operation. From there skiers and boarders take off in AStar helicopters and flit over the magnificent empty wilderness of the Chugach Range. Being this far north and so close to the sea, the Chugach receives an extraordinary amount of snow with a stability unmatched elsewhere. It is possible to ski or board pitches of as much as 60 degrees - truly astonishing when you consider the steepest runs in most resorts...
...were implicated in a series of terrorist bombings that killed 130 people at Sinai beach resorts from 2004 to 2006. In the aftermath, some 3,000 Bedouin were arrested; up to 1,000 of them are still in detention, according to Ahmed Ragheb, director of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center. He says that about 1,000 more are in prison for smuggling and related charges. The government has denied using abusive measures in Sinai, and there are no official statistics on the number of Bedouin in detention...