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Last Thursday marked the launch of Harvard’s newest student publication, “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard.” The first issue to appear at Harvard contains various poems and brief narratives from anonymous authors that reveal chilling, first-hand accounts of sexual assault. Such a collection of stories insinuates that this kind of crime is much more prevalent than the average student would believe, which is exactly what the editors had in mind. “Sexual assault does happen at Harvard,” says Saturday Night editor Azeemah...
...KEEPING IDEALSIM ALIVEThree years ago, Bartholet set out to capture this idealism. With the help of HLS, Bartholet founded the CAP, the first multi-faceted program in the nation to train students in the field.Based in Pound Hall, CAP offers a policy workshop that brings leading child welfare advocates into the classroom, an academic course to educate students on the legal issues relating to children, and a clinical course where students gain first-hand experience in the field. Recently it hosted a film series on the lives of children and teenagers growing up in prison.Though other top-tier law schools...
...Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard” drew 75 students to Kirkland’s Junior Common Room last night. Undegraduates munched on cheese and crackers as members of the Spoken Word Society performed accounts published in the magazine, which features poems, first-hand accounts, and other documents which fall outside the normal boundaries of genre.With the first issue of what is hoped to be a yearly publication, the magazine staff aim to personalize normally clinical accounts of sexual assault. “Students need to read this magazine and be moved,” said...
Kennedy School student Shouvik Banerjee said the most powerful part of the Obama discussion was “hearing the first-hand experiences with...
Gates has, however, gone far above and beyond giving away a vast fortune. He could easily have simply written a check, but instead, he has become a philanthropic guru. He has traveled around the world to gather first-hand knowledge and has hired the world’s top experts to advise him on how to make the greatest impact with each dollar...