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...much fun it could be to be in a classroom where people really wanted to discuss,” Fuller explains. “There was a lot of give and take and exchange of ideas and it was just very exciting for me. I guess at that point I also started to discover modern dance and other ways of approaching dance. I started think that maybe ballet isn’t the only thing of value out there in life and that maybe I should give myself a chance to look around a little bit before I entrenched myself...
...level of the lecture hall would come precariously close to making academics not “whatever we choose it to be” and instead a matter of a common search for understanding—one that can’t be left at the exit of the classroom. This collaboration might then serve as an unofficial limiting of each student’s self-direction of study, and counteract the administration’s insistence on autonomous determination of academics...
Lelchuk, who also helped organize the series, added that the dinners were a great opportunity for students to get to know alumni outside of recruitment and classroom settings...
...applaud her efforts—they have resulted in several impressive gains. However, President Faust mentions only “women and minorities” as her focus for diversity. She naively assumes that more females and minorities will automatically guarantee different ideologies in the classroom. This is trickle-down diversity, and it does not work...
...students were female, and almost 50 percent, including myself, were “students of color.” President Faust would have been overcome with euphoria to walk into our lecture and observe the “diversity.” As I sat alone in a classroom of peers, I realized that diversity at Harvard is an intellectual joke...