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Students agree that watching skin flicks in a classroom--as opposed to, say, a dorm room--can offer new perspectives. Lindsey Reich, 21, a senior majoring in anthropology at N.Y.U., thought herself fairly progressive when she signed up for Professor Don Kulick's sexuality-and-gender course last year. Then he screened a film featuring the porn star Annie Sprinkle having sex with a transgendered man and another showing female ejaculation. To her surprise, Reich was shocked. "I realized I do have my biases about what is a man and what is a woman--I mean, I grew...
...keeps an eye on the serving area to make sure that students are eating enough or eating at all. If House masters or tutors have children, play with them. It only takes the sight of a tricycle or a bicycle child seat in the courtyard to make a dorm feel homey¬even when the dorm is made of concrete.3. Make your House better for future generations. House Committees are the backbone of residential life, but it takes a village to continue House traditions. A few weeks ago, my roommate met a Matherite who graduated from Harvard 30 years...
More importantly, pre-assigned housing creates the strongest incentive yet for community. It tells freshmen: get to know your dorm-mates because you will be with them for 4 years. It’s ready-made; there’s no need to scour...
...don’t have a problem with opt-in co-ed housing, that young men and women might live together in the same dorm room. Co-ed housing is but a minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed...
...replying to my arguments about why a women’s center wasn’t right for Harvard College. I had argued that a women’s center was a bad idea on the grounds that it was, in part, driving the impending renovation of the Yard dorm basements (a very bad idea in itself), and because the idea of a women’s center in itself was either demeaning or useless.I still maintain that I’m right on the first charge. With the renovation of Hilles starting soon, student groups have more than...