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According to the Office for the Arts (OFA), the visual work of Council Prize in Visual Arts winner Alexandra M. Hays ’09 “addresses the critique of social customs and expectations of the West’s myopic perspective on the East, especially China.” But Hays does not entirely agree with this interpretation. Yes, Hays admits, her background as an East Asian Studies concentrator has influenced her art more than a history of working from any particular medium. “But I’m not really an artist...
...green campus.)Other than those two points, the letter of the report appears sound. But the spirit in which the administration carries out these changes will ultimately determine the effectiveness of this policy. So far, the draft has been formed in a collaborative fashion. Representatives of the Undergraduate Council, College Events Board, HoCos, and cultural societies were all invited to the subcommittee to express the needs and wishes of student groups. This stands in stark contrast to the dictatorial and opaque method by which the College’s new alcohol policy was changed earlier last fall. We encourage...
...Staples, the exclusive supplier of office furniture to the 2008 Olympics, to appeal to Beijing to curtail its support for Khartoum. China imports over two-thirds of Sudan’s oil, has invested as much as $15 billion in Sudan’s economy, has stonewalled past Security Council resolutions on the Darfur genocide, and bears responsibility for 90 percent of small arms sales to Sudan since...
...only does the Chinese government have immense political and diplomatic leverage over the Sudanese government, but it has been responsive to campaigns linking Darfur with the Olympics. In July 2007, Beijing voted in favor of the Security Council resolution authorizing the deployment of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Shortly after Steven Spielberg resigned as Artistic Director of the Olympics, China declared that Sudan “should be more flexible” in allowing UNAMID to deploy...
...four central administrators and representatives of three of Harvard’s Cambridge-based schools—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Design School. Two undergraduates and two graduate students will also be named to the committee in consultation with their respective student councils, according to the announcement. Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 praised the committee’s formation, saying the chairs had approached the UC to find potential members from both the river and the Quad. “We plan to do a thorough search...