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These bodies should use a strict test of educational merit and community contribution when making decisions about grants to student groups. Certainly there is nothing wrong with wanting to play Scrabble or exhibit your love of New Jersey. But board games and state pride do not directly contribute to the educational goals of the University. Nor do they better Harvard as a place of learning or address an unmet need in our city. Therefore, they should not receive formal funding from Harvard. These interests should be pursued on students’ own time and at their own expense...
...exhibit, when considered collectively, is for the most part original and even unique—and well worth the painless trip to Mather House to experience it. It will, at any rate, grant the once in a lifetime opportunity to guiltlessly judge a book by its cover—and who could ask for more...
...society wracked by over-consumption, consumerism, self-image and physical obsession, works dealing primarily with issues of figuration and the body are especially relevant. They hold together as perhaps the most coherent and complete segment of the exhibit. Comprised of paintings by Richard Phillips and Jenny Saville, a photograph by Charlie White, and a sculptural triptych by Louise Bourgeois, the group provides a thorough investigation of female bodily concerns and dilemmas inherent in feminine sexuality...
...exhibit provides an informative and thought-provoking look at the myriad functions of realism in contemporary art. Each work deserves extended viewing and often demands a modicum of patience in order to unravel its meaning and appreciate its implications as interpretations on the timeless conflict of representing the world we inhabit...
...pretzel vendor plies his trade while on the left in the foreground a balding, mousy looking man’s face is half-obscured by an enormous brown paper bag. Far in the deep background, yet clearly visible, are the two towers of the World Trade Center. This exhibit was assembled in the wake of Sept. 11, so it cannot but be for conscious choice. Amazingly, Levitt reverses convention and puts the frame’s most monumental element far removed from view—so much so as to render it almost invisible...