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...It’s difficult a lot of the time, especially at this stage of your life, to have a chance to focus on something else other than just progressing through school and your career,” he said...
...spent a whole practice working on our warm-up so we would all be ready to go as soon as the game started,” junior David Tune said. Because a victory on Saturday will clinch a spot in the Eastern Championships, the Crimson is primarily focusing its efforts on the Rams. “They’re a solid team, but I think we are the better team,” Ludwick said. “We need to bring focus and take care of business.” To do that, Harvard will hope to rely...
Andrew C. Coles ’09 was first attracted to the African and African-American Studies department—the post-2003 title for the former Afro-American Studies department—because it combined a broad base in the humanities with a narrower focus on African-American culture. He initially worried, however, that his ethnicity would affect the way people perceived his academic choices. “I was afraid that I would be, quote unquote, that black kid doing that black stuff,” he says...
...study of the Western canon. “During high school, I wasn’t exposed to African-American history to the extent that I would have liked,” says Welton E. Blount ’09, an African-American Linguistics concentrator with a focus on African-American studies. Coles notes that, while he was taught Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte in his high school English class, classic works by African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and James Weldon Johnson were missing from the curriculum...
...Caucasian students are arguably more likely to encounter questions of academic purpose when they choose to focus on ethnic disciplines. Solomon, who identifies herself as Latin American and German, often encounters the accusation, “Oh, you want to date Arab guys—is that why you’re studying the Middle East...