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...advocates for an ethnic studies curriculum—said that she was pleased with the discussion. “I think this conversation was great in that it was the first step in fostering student-faculty communication, and we really need students to work with faculty and administrators to establish a sustainable program in ethnic studies,” she said. As for how to win over critics, Lin said the answer is education. “I feel like this mostly stems from the fact that people don’t understand what ethnic studies...
...course, making a few changes in room reservation policies is one thing; comprehensive institutional change is another. Every House should have a tutor, student, or administrator who is charged with bridging the gap between the SCR and its residents. The burden falls upon those who administer the SCR to establish meaningful links between its members and the student population. At the very least, House administrators should make it easier for students to reach out on their own, either through the House website or through their resident tutor...
...counterpart, the Harvard SCR model was designed to foster casual interaction between faculty and students. “In England, the professors just sit and stare down at undergraduates. They’re probably only worried about the quality of their wine cellars,” Mayman said. In establishing the current residential life system in the early twentieth century, University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, sought to depart from some of the English system’s shortcomings.To that end, he envisaged the SCR as a way to engender a more convivial and inter-generational academic environment...
...vision, Murray says she believes that we can only solve these problems through interdisciplinary learning and by educating leaders who can understand science. She says she will continue to develop the Technology, Science and Society concentration and the Bioengineering concentration for undergraduates as well as work to establish connections with Harvard’s other schools. “We have all these horizontal interactions between SEAS and systems biology and the Medical School, and I think she’ll be great in establishing bridges,” says Capasso. Colleagues say her experience as both an experimentalist...
...more than a quarter-century, the Tamil Tigers have waged a guerilla war against the Sri Lankan government in their attempt to establish an independent state - which they call Eelam - for minority Hindu Tamils in the north and east of the island nation. Suicide bombings and assassinations have been the group's calling cards, all orchestrated by Velupillai Prabhakaran, who founded the insurgent group in the mid-70s. Now, a months-long push by the Sri Lankan military appears to have mortally wounded the group, considered by the United States a terrorist organization, trapping the Tigers (and thousands of Tamil...