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With the release of the new numbers of Government concentrators, the department has an incredible opportunity to re-focus its goals on the quality of the undergraduate experience. Now more than ever, the powers that be in CGIS need to re-evaluate the department’s quality and reputation. Its myriad resources, its new facilities, and its budgetary priorities should shift to issues most pertinent to its students: advising, pedagogy, and the quality of course offerings...
...today, Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez Reyna will give a presentation in the Tsai Auditorium at CGIS South entitled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example.” He will probably talk about Dominican Republic’s recent high rate of economic growth, about the reforms made within his country’s justice system and legislature, which have cracked down on corruption and human trafficking and emboldened free trade, and possibly even about Haiti. But he will probably not talk about bateyes, mass deportations, or the indentured servitude that chains thousands...
...teens or early twenties and responsible (perhaps for the last time) to no one but ourselves. We are so eager to be involved on campus and in the classroom that we forget there is an entire world in which to be involved, one that makes the basement classrooms of CGIS and the panels on international affairs look pitifully inadequate. Our resources are great and our faculty superb, but no lecture on Latin American social movements can compare to watching the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo march outside the Casa Rosada, crying for their children who disappeared more than...
Over 150 Puerto Rican students from the Boston area descended upon the CGIS South Building on Saturday, armed with ideas on how to revitalize the economy of their native island. The symposium was part of a two-day conference, “Restoring Economic Growth in Puerto Rico,” presented by the Harvard-MIT Puerto Rico Caucus. The caucus held the conference so that professors, businessmen, government officials, and students could exchange their proposals for economic reform. “We wanted to create an intellectual forum,” said Luis A. Martinez...
...refugee camp last night, in an attempt to raise awareness of the living conditions resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The teenagers and their stories, attested to by the moving photographs that flashed on the screen behind them during a presentation at the Center for Goverment and International Studies (CGIS), were part of a six-city U.S. tour organized by Picture Balata, a West Bank-based group dedicated to teaching the youth of the Balata refugee camp about photography. The exhibit, which will remain on the ground floor of CGIS North until April 21, highlighted the plight of the refugee...