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...said. “The jobless rate among young adults in some of the suburbs ranges anywhere from 25 to 50 percent.” Harvard’s Office of International Programs referred a reporter’s phone call to John “Jay” Ellison, assistant dean of Harvard College. In an e-mail message, Ellison said that the riots in France should not stop any student from studying abroad there. “I do not think this is a watershed event,” Ellison said. “The world is complex...
...Ellison, the assistant dean of Harvard College and secretary of the Ad Board, says the Ad Board will not punish a student for simply smoking marijuana. In the two cases last year in which the board did take action, Ellison said, drugs were only part of the offense and were not the complete reason for punishment...
...Ellison elaborated that while students would not face the Ad Board for smoking pot or drinking underage, they would face the Board for violations such as smashing a window, breaking a door, or starting a fight. In fact, he says, the only reason alcohol and drugs are mentioned in the Ad Board’s reports is because of a government...
Music. Flight. Racism. The tales in Ralph Ellison's posthumous collection of short fiction, Flying Home and Other Stories (173 pages; Random House; $23) deal with a variety of issues, but certain concerns pop up repeatedly, variations on compelling melodies. Characters in different stories burst into song; birds and airplanes are seen as metaphors for freedom; and white racism is a fanged, fearsome threat...
...Ellison was a great writer but not a prolific one. Born in 1914, he published only one novel, Invisible Man, before his death in 1994. Flying Home represents a welcome addition to his oeuvre. Of the 13 stories in Flying Home, six were unpublished during Ellison's lifetime--they were found, after his death, in a box beneath his dining-room table...