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...final clubs parties on campus, your piece trivializes the fundamental inequalities that women face at Harvard. From the instant we arrive on the campus, we are confronted with reminders of our “visitor” status, from the lack of tenured female professors in the classroom to the lack of depictions of women among the portraits and statuary adorning the hallowed halls. The entire history of women at Harvard and Radcliffe is marked by separation, inequality of resources, and reluctance on the part of male-dominated Harvard to adequately care for female students. As early...
...jazz trumpet at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied in a unique program, Third Stream, which emphasized learning music by ear. Two particular courses influenced her deeply: one on North Indian classical music with sitarist Peter Row, and another on African music and ethnomusicology. Outside the classroom, Monson was introduced to other genres of music, and played everything from Klezmer to salsa. After a few years, Monson returned to school, this time to study ethnomusicology. She began to examine the improvisational process through the lens of social history. In discussing what moved her to write critically about...
...curriculum: the Freshman Seminar Program. The number of freshman seminars offered has more than quadrupled in his time here, notably in the sciences, where few seminars of any sort had previously been offered. That Summers’ commitment to undergraduate education extended beyond the committee room and into the classroom, where he taught two freshman seminars and a lecture course on globalization, stands as a testament to the authenticity of his conviction...
...could go five days without seeing a guy. It almost produces a chemical imbalance. A lot of the people in my classes went to an all-girl college because they felt intimidated by [guys]. If you are in a classroom devoid of men, how is that empowerment? When they go into the real world, they will just be unprepared. I don’t think that anyone could benefit from that atmosphere in the end,” says Brettman...
...Academically...” he trailed off, laughing. What’s more important is that Donato can “show kids a life outside of the classroom,” the player reasoned. “Stress levels go down, happiness...