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...over the past few years. She won the Under-20 Junior World Fencing Championships in 2005 and 2006 and was the youngest foilist named to Team USA for the 2007 World Fencing Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the past, Cross has competed internationally and done well in the classroom simultaneously; however, she was forced to take the last year and a half off from school to devote herself fully to her Olympic dream.“We’ve been supporting [her Olympic] quest over the last three years while she’s been at Harvard...
...clapped at his comment, I thought that crossed the line … I was facing intolerance of ideas and intolerance of freedom of expression.” But cancelling class does in fact mean stifling her students’ views and depriving them of an environment for productive classroom discourse. Accusing her students of a misdeed for which she herself is responsible —“intolerance of freedom of expression”—is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. And her willingness to take her grievances to court poses...
...sources of funding. David A. Martin ’07, who received a Pell Grant and whose tuition was covered by the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, said that he noticed an increase in socioeconomic diversity during his time at Harvard. Martin said that a diversity of backgrounds added to classroom discussion, where lower-income students could help illuminate the divide between the real world and the classroom. “There’s a difference between what you read in Ec 10 and what you experience,” he said. —Staff writer Lingbo...
...tone of Harvard’s artistic community as a whole. But before all this, Whitaker left an unsatisfying freshman rowing experience to pursue her love of movies. Whitaker, who is also and inactive Arts editor, has followed a passion for film studies from her kitchen table to the classroom and beyond at Harvard. The silver screen was an integral part of Whitaker’s childhood. The New York City native fondly recounts memories of her high school days, when going to the movies every weekend—and analytically “dissecting” each one over...
Come June, 24-year-old Japanese graduate student Yusuke Sakamoto will face an unusual final exam. While most of his classmates at Tokai University near Tokyo will be sweating out answers in a classroom, Sakamoto will be in pit lane at France's legendary Le Mans race track, hoping his 550-horsepower school project survives one of the world's great endurance races...