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...sense that people feel it’s not a legitimate concentration,” says Yuna C. Han ’10, when asked what she thinks about the department. But an official pronouncement may help in changing that perception.Last week, Harvard University President Drew G. Faust announced the creation of a “task force on the arts,” designed to ensure that arts education—as part of a broader liberal arts education—has a significant place here at Harvard. In doing so, she addressed the kind of skepticism Han speaks...
Remember when Drew G. Faust was “installed” as Harvard’s president? There was pomp, circumstance, and lots of old people in black muumuus...
...ruse. No one became president of anything that day, despite all the old crap that Faust managed to accumulate in the course of the ceremony. The Charter of the Harvard Corporation, vintage 1650, is really just a chunk of parchment. The keys to the University—which, I’m told, open nothing but the Mass. Hall liquor cabinet—are barely even symbolic. It’s nice to think that handing over a couple pieces of silver could change history, but that’s clearly never been the case...
...Faust only began her presidency on Nov. 1, when she composed her first career-making e-mail: “I am very pleased to announce the creation of a University-wide task force to examine the place of the arts at Harvard...
...welcome, President Faust, to Harvard’s inner circle, but task your forces well. A committee is like a delicate exotic fruit: Touch it and the bloom is gone...