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...homeschoolers at Harvard banded together last year to form an official student organization, Homeschoolers Anonymous. The founder and president, Stephen T. Norberg ’06, says he created the club to help freshmen transition from homeschooled backgrounds to college. The club, which has 26 Facebook.com members, aims to dispel some of the misconceptions surrounding homeschooling, he says.Emphasizing that the club’s title has no connection with self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, the Kansas City, Mo., native says he picked the name to make fun of the stereotype that all homeschoolers lack social skills and need support...
...that govern the rest of humanity. But for a country that will soon face rapidly intensifying political, economic, and military challenges, encouraging trips that are essentially extended vacations might not be the best strategy. Brooks is right to suggest that American students do more to broaden their horizons and dispel the “provincialism” that too often seems to characterize them. By all means. Let young Americans spend more time in other countries. Let them travel, and let them learn foreign languages by the dozen. But if one is serious about maintaining America’s position...
During two meetings last Wednesday—one with the Faculty Council and one with department chairs—the incoming interim president sought, with apparent success, to dispel the Faculty’s angst about the dean search...
...Saudi governments worried about that too, and last year they agreed that one of the best ways to dispel the apprehensions on both sides would be to foster more person-to-person contact. So over the next four years, Saudi Arabia will pay for al-Dehaim and as many as 20,000 other young Saudis to come to the U.S. to study. The U.S. has pledged to speed visa processing for the students--while still running full background checks and in-person interviews at the consulate in Jidda...
...wish President Summers had given his friends some time to work to dispel the cloud of caricature and misrepresentation, but it seems that the Harvard Corporation, despite its admirable and proper defense of Summers against his detractors, may have concluded that even a fair fight would do us more harm than a capitulation. And for all I know Summers, while caring deeply for our community and wanting to continue to serve it, also decided that he’d been battered enough: that is fair. Whitman’s heartbreaking American dirge, from which this jeremiad draws its title, will...