Word: coring
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This morning, don't take your parents to see Marty Feldstein lecture in Harvard Hall. Instead, take them to an overcrowded section in Sever. Try to find a core class being taught by a befuddled TF with no particular expertise in the subject matter. Ask questions he can't answer. Enjoy as the discussion circles endlessly while self-important idiots pontificate in search of participation points. Afterwards, wait in line...
...case this weekend when the targets of the con are parents. We miss an extraordinary opportunity to exert pressure for change. Through the eyes of an administrator, angry students are one thing, angry parents another. Imagine if hundreds of furious mothers descended on Dean Knowels' office demanding core reform. What might happen if fathers started knocking on President Rudenstine's door wondering why all the junior faculty were leaving...
...first lecture of the popular core class Historical Studies B-27: "The English Revolution," Baird Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky spoke in front of a packed Harvard Hall 102. Matthew, his son, sat in the crowd to secretly witness his dad's shopping period performance. During the lecture, Professor Kishlansky went over the course's reading list and drew attention to a book that he authored. He encouraged students to buy his book not because it was the best source for the class or because he wrote it based on the class. "He said he was the single support...
This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...
Liebert does not note that racism, an ideology that views minority groups as culturally and/or biologically inferior, is also a social construction. At their core, Black History Month and Kwanzaa are simply cultural constructions drafted to fight against racism, the most irrational construct of all. They cannot be considered outside of that context. JASON B. PHILLIPS '99 March 1, 1999 The writer is vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association...