Word: expression
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Although the absence of the visual arts may suggest a lack of interest, it more likely reflects a lack of outlets through which students can express themselves visually. Many undergraduates passionately attend openings at the Carpenter Center, or hear Richard Prince lecture on his photographs. Students take advantage of the few well-publicized opportunities available to engage themselves in the visual arts, even if they cannot actually create. The recent opening of the Winthrop House Art Studio, which saw more students than could be accommodated at easels, demonstrates definite untapped interest...
...releasing tool that can complement and enhance our academic studies. Studying the poignant black and white photographs of Sebastian Salgado or the innovative architecture of Frank Gehry translates the wonders and terrors of the modern world better than any textbook or problem set ever could. We see how expression can be far more powerful in the visual medium. We need more opportunities to express ourselves in this...
...College must create a new disciplinary board that would be specially trained to handle cases of sexual assault. The investigation and adjudication of sexual assault cases requires a care and expertise that the currently untrained board does not have. Rather, a new or separate board should comprise individuals who express their interest in the fair adjudication of sexual assault complaints. The board should be extensively educated to ensure an understanding of what sorts of behavior constitute sexual assault...
...After losing their spouses, the couple had met by chance and became lovers. Touched by their story, director Park decided to turn it into a movie. And most of the time, he just let the cameras roll. (He left the room during the sex scenes.) "I just wanted to express the passionate love this couple found right at the end of their lives," says Park. "It is just a story about a man and a woman." Romance never gets old. Nor does prudery...
Paulin is certainly entitled to express his own opinions—and of course, extremely critical views of Israel should not preclude him from speaking at Harvard, on that subject or any other. Whether or not he believes in the right of a Jewish state to exist is irrelevant to a discussion of epic poetry, the original subject of his lecture. But when the English department learned that he advocated killing civilians and considered the Israeli military a modern-day incarnation of the SS, the content of his poetry became immaterial...