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Each year, students arrive from across the nation and the globe. They grew up in different cultures, subscribe to different politics, prefer different foods and have differing moral values. And they are brought here and expected to eat, sleep and learn together. It is a miracle of modern universal tolerance...
Assistant Professor of the Classics and of History Eric W. Robinson says he is accustomed to the sporadic interruption of his lectures in History 10a, "Western Societies, Politics and Cultures", and classes he has taught at other colleges, by a ringing cell phone.
"I think these notes are essentially Cliff Notes, and you get what you pay for," Fash says. Fash teaches Foreign Cultures 34, "Mesoamerican Civilations."
Originally the only event for U.N. Day, this year's cultural event, designed to celebrate the cultures of Harvard's international students, will feature student group performances and poetry, followed by an international food fair.
Harvard RAZA, the student organization dedicated to increasing awareness of Latino and Chicano cultures, hosted last weekend's 1999 East Coast Chicano Student Forum (ECCSF) fall conference attended by students from a number of universities and colleges.