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Again, I will retreat a bit and qualify: most of the qualms I have with the science and math Cores I’ve taken are basically bureaucratic in nature. I actually loved the lectures in my Quantitative Reasoning Core (Peter Ellison??s “Counting People”), and I was happy to absorb what I could of my Science A (again, the contrarian in me decided to protest the Core, and so I took Earth and Planetary Sciences 5, which was fascinating, but you can only imagine how well that midterm went...
...Ellison??s interview with the Globe caused a stir among Harvard observers last week. Yet McCarthy said it hardly came as a shock to most professors, who felt it illustrated their grievances with the president...
...University’s highest governing board, told Summers in a “Dear Larry” letter that “Harvard’s best interests require your resignation.”The president’s spokesman, John Longbrake, declined to comment on Ellison??s remarks.PLAYING FAVORITESEllison, a biological anthropologist, also took aim at what he called Summers’ “presidential favoritism” of certain academic disciplines.In a phone interview, Ellison recalled that Summers had asked him and his colleagues to prepare a proposal for ways in which the University...
...liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison??s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man” are constantly invented to make consumers more comfortable with...
...Student Affairs Committee Chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who is also a Lowell House resident, said that Ellison??s appointment to fill the vacancy is in students best interest...