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...rights advocacy provided constant fodder for the magazine’s criticisms. In a Dec. 2002 letter to the editor, Pappin praised a 1920 secret court that disciplined homosexual students. The Harvard administrators’ actions had not been public until an article in Fifteen Minutes reported on them that December...
Rubin is currently translating Murakami’s latest novel, “After Dark.” Their professional relationship has turned into a friendship over the course of fifteen years. While living in the same Cambridge neighborhood, Rubin often consulted Murakami over his translation of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.” In a way, their relationship is like the one that could have blossomed between Carver and Murakami, had he lived...
...students, though—professors have also worked tardiness into their mindset. Knowing that people will, at the earliest, arrive at seven past, they sometimes add in another few minutes to allow for the really late stragglers; some classes won’t start until ten or even fifteen past. Not only is this unfair to on-time students who have to wait, but it also reduces the amount of content that can be covered in any given course. The seven-minute rule, further, can be very unclear. A very hazy line separates when it should and should not apply...
...personal and academic identity. No one denies the pressure of these circumstances, and the consequences thereof—eating extra at the dining halls, skipping meals, snacking while studying late at night, ordering-in food, decreasing exercise, and increasing alcohol intake—produce the expected, yet accepted freshman fifteen...
Nutritional problems, however, will not disappear overnight. In a highly intellectual environment, it is easy to dismiss concern over the freshman fifteen as a consequence of society’s obsession with body image. What is not easy to accept is that weight gain in short time periods is not an image concern, but rather a health concern. The Harvard experience includes taking incredible classes, meeting amazing people, and establishing patterns for independent life after graduation—which should include, from the first day of shopping period, a better understanding of the basic nutritional practices that lead to healthy...