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Harvard creative writing teachers this week continued to grapple with the implications of the shootings at Virginia Tech—which were perpetrated by an English major whose disturbed mind first became known to university officials through the creative writing classroom...
...You’re not in a creative writing classroom very long before you can start to recognize who is working in some kind of way differently than what we expect of them,” Johnston said...
...While Korsgaard acknowledged that it is difficult to avoid compromising ethical standards, she said that individual action was an important step forward, pointing out that “delicious cuisines for vegetarians are available.” The panel also said that change could begin in the classroom. “If I were a Harvard student today, I would seriously consider taking up ethics and animals as an area of study, independent research, or thesis,” said Patricia Herzog, a former professor at Brandeis University. The discussion was intended to present a critical look at how humans...
...great sadness that we learned that Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles had abruptly stepped down from the deanship for health reasons. Knowles has been a strong presence on campus—be it in the lab, the classroom, or University Hall—for three decades, 11 of them as dean and as interim dean for the past nine months. In that time, he has built up a reputation for strong, yet understated leadership. It is no secret that this page has disagreed with Knowles on matters...
...experience - the men spent three years in the Gulag - seemed not to dampen a rebellious streak that showed early in his life. Yeltsin recounted several occasions on which he was disciplined in school for fighting or for organizing pranks, once persuading all the students in his classroom to climb out a window and run away from a teacher they disliked. Another time, he and a fellow student broke into an army storage area and stole a hand grenade. It exploded while he attempted to disassemble it, resulting in the loss of the thumb and forefinger of his left hand...