Word: chapel
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...Saudi students acknowledge some lingering wariness. They worry when news like the debate over the Dubai Ports deal or the attack earlier this month by a Muslim student from Iran who, claiming it was "the will of Allah," drove into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could turn campus opinion against them. "When they see the TV news, maybe they won't like Muslims, Saudis," says Hamad Almusai, 22. "But they don't know us." Still, any discomfort seems to dissipate as the students engage in that quintessential college activity: just hanging...
...some at universities across the country have called for the University to single out Israel among all nations as the lone country where it is inappropriate for any part of the University’s endowment to be invested,” Summers said at morning prayers in Appleton Chapel. “I hasten to say the University has categorically rejected this suggestion.” His suggestion that divestment from Israel would be “anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent” made waves scarcely a year into his presidency. His opponents claimed that...
...general way with the accumulated thought of past generations, and penetrated with humility. It is thus that the University in our day serves Christ and the Church.” The University’s purpose, in other words, was no longer anchored strictly to theology. But while compulsory chapel attendance may have already become ancient history, Harvard wasn’t abandoning God just yet. In fact, one could regard the ostensible secularization of the late 19th century as more an affirmation of Christianity than an unequivocal rejection of religion. As George M. Marsden writes...
...education foundation dedicated to funding low-income students at elite colleges—gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan-Anne Arbor, Cornell, Bucknell, Mt. Holyoke, Amherst and the University of Southern California. These schools in turn will commit a composite $20.5 million of their own money to the program. The foundation said its ultimate goal is to have the success of the eight colleges...
...Vagina Monologues Tuesday, Feb. 14, Thursday, Feb. 16, and Saturday, Feb. 18. 7:30 p.m. Andover Chapel, Divinity School. $8. On a list of statements you’d never expect to hear in Andover Chapel, “My vagina is furious and it needs to talk” would sit near the top. But come Feb. 14, that venerable church at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) will be filled with genitalia-related sentiments during performances of “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler’s modern classic about female sexuality. Twenty HDS students, faculty...