Word: essays
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Wendy Kaminer is a public policy fellow at Radcliffe College. Her essay collection True Love Waits will be published in April...
Black students may also receive negative messages from the administration due to randomization. For example, by effectively banning significantly-sized black communities, is the administration telling us that these communities are of no worth? Or will it reinforce the feeling, as discussed in professor Mary Water's essay in the 1995 Race Relations Handbook, that a black student's primary role at Harvard is to be on display for the white students? In other words, is Harvard doing this so that in 20 years from now, white students can boast to their friends that they lived next to a black...
LAST WINTER DANCE CRITIC Arlene Croce wrote a controversial essay for the New Yorker in which she discussed choreographer Bill T. Jones' production Still/Here without having seen it. She justified her unorthodox move by claiming she didn't have to sit through the piece, a treatise on aids and other terminal illnesses, to know what she was going to get--a lot of easy emotionalism. Certain kinds of art, literature and film, Croce argued, are too manipulative to be judged objectively, too predictable, essentially, to be bothered with...
Dean Epps' breathtaking essay entitled, "The Uses of Diversity," provides a most chilling historical account of past Harvard presidents' concerns about race relations at this school. Surprisingly, it pretty much says that everyone from Nathan Pusey, who served as president in the 19th century, to current president Neil L. Rudenstine has addressed race relations. Congrats, guys. Let's keep up the tradition for years to come. Address it, write an essay or two and pass the legacy on. Harvard is all about legacy anyway...
...address the reasons behind the Million Man March so that those who do not understand its positive influence in the area of race relations can begin to understand it. Instead of trying to tackle this perhaps too complicated issue, Kilson decides to emphasize in the opening paragraphs of his essay the fact that he has written tons of articles for national publications. Congrats, Kilson. What have you done for me lately...