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...couple of days later, I called Rabbi Dr. Chaim Pollock, Dean of Foreign Students at the Michlalah Jerusalem College, whom I had read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling...
...Stagnating Core options and the slow pace of Gen Ed approvals may leave incoming freshmen in a bind. When Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith was asked if there will be enough options this fall for members of the Class of 2012 to graduate under Gen Ed, he said, “I’m not sure I can really answer that question...
Adams House Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell said that student concerns centered around the sexual suggestion contained in the phrase, “Barely Legal,” a colloquial descriptor for sexual partners just over the age of consent—particularly since the party was scheduled to take place during the upcoming prefrosh visiting weekend...
...Hall are extremely committed to this project,” she wrote, “so the committee’s job is to come up with dynamic ideas, not to worry about paying for them.” Cohen and the other co-chair, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, agreed that the committee will discuss a broad range of ideas to improve social spaces on campus for Harvard’s students, faculty, and staff. But the committee would most likely recommend measures to improve the use of current facilities, not the construction of new buildings such...
...Instead, the same professors with the same interests will stand up to present much the same material as the year before. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) can expect a “pause” in faculty hiring during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, who recently proposed the measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this hiring slow-down will ultimately disadvantage students who face gaping holes in their departments of choice. Harvard...