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...Despite the College’s freeze on UC funds in response to the UC’s intransigence, there is a silver lining. Now that the UC has proven willing to act in open defiance of the administration, surely we can expect it to mobilize with the same force to campaign for lower textbook costs for low-income students or to persuade the University to adopt more socially responsible investment policies. Perhaps in the future, the UC will save its political capital for campus advocacy that matters rather than petty fights over students’ rights to get drunk...
Faust’s friends and colleagues expect that instead of emulating Summers’ speech, she will broaden her scope and focus on Harvard’s leadership role in higher education, and the responsibilities that come with...
...expect that since she is so much a part of the academy that this will be an inspirational talk where she probably will remind us of the unique value of higher education and institutions like ours,” said University Marshal Jackie A. O’Neill, who organized today’s festivities...
...Amram says. “Standing up and comedy.”Amram, Greenbaum, Greaves, and Bohrer are soon joined by Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Hillary H. Wang ’11.The routines mostly consist of jokes on the kinds of topics you might expect: Harvard, drinking, sex, and Judaism. What is surprising is that they’re good.In fact, most of HCSUCS had the chops to get spots at the Boston Comedy Festival, which runs through Oct. 13.“YOU SHOULD TRY STANDUP”In part, the level of polish some...
...have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe the linguistic application of verbs and metaphors in the context of culture...