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Tonight we will start to get some of those answers. At 8 p.m. in Emerson 108, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, Acting Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Mary Maples Dunn, Dean Avery and Julia G. Fox, will be available to answer questions about the Ann Radcliffe Trust and women's issues on campus more generally. We welcome this meeting and hope a plan involving substantial, open student involvement can be worked out for governance of the Ann Radcliffe Trust...
...this time, most of the candidates have abandoned campaigning for classes. Dreyfus traverses the Yard one more time to get to his class at Emerson Hall. The lecture for Historical Study B-27, "The English Revolution," is his only Monday class, but he will spend the bulk of the afternoon in meetings at Hillel, where he is annual events coordinator, and doing work in his Quad dorm room will consume most of his evening...
...David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations and let the natural objects he studied speak...
...after the Oklahoma City bombing, many officials and journalists were quick to announce that the most likely culprits were the local Arab and Muslim communities, and the FBI put out two sketches of "Middle Eastern looking" individuals who were suspected of planting the bomb. In fact, one "expert," Steven Emerson, who recently visited Harvard and gave a talk about the dangers of Islam in America, was quoted as saying, "This was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That is a Middle Eastern trait." It wasn't long before these vicious stereotypes were proven wrong, once...
Chad B. Denton, '01, co-director of Aiming High for Emerson Academic Development (AHEAD), recalled an episode a few weeks ago. Joe found out that the Denton was short drivers for an AHEAD event and volunteered his services to shuttle PBHA volunteers to the event. Even at the top of the totem pole, Joe does not feel like he is above any task...