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Under apartheid, large gatherings were forbidden. Church became the only place where blacks and coloreds could meet in numbers. Gospel music, with its themes of hope, strength and redemption, became their only legal form of protest and their only means of escape. "We sang to keep going," says Lucas Bok, the choir's musical director. "Singing was the only way to express yourself." That need spurred the creation of hundreds of gospel choirs in Soweto - the massive talent pool from which Mulovhedzi drew his recruits...
...Nauert: I feel that many people at Harvard are engaged in some form of social action or political action...very broadly and diversely construed, whether it’s Phillips Brook House, House government, the UC, Dems, or whatever the case may be. What I think I have been surprised at is that with some very, very major exceptions—like the Stand for Security Campaign, the May Day rallies for immigration my freshman year—groups fail to connect on broadly shared interests and form lasting, coalitional outlooks...
Five faculty members and five undergraduates were named yesterday as the members of a committee the College has formed with the purpose of reviewing the role and responsibilities of the Undergraduate Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced in an e-mail to the College yesterday. Though the UC itself nominated five students—two on the UC and three not on the UC—only two of its recommendations were taken, those who are members of the Council. The 10 committee members will take a critical look at the College?...
...about causes for so long. The State House instead must prepare itself to contend with this multigenerational, multifarious problem. Family support services must be extended to these new mothers who might otherwise be taking the MCAS—follow-up programs, information about schools and parenting, and health services form up a vital base to promoting a secure environment for these mothers. As their children enter school, whatever reductions may have been made in sexual education programs must be reversed promptly; Massachusetts simply cannot afford this misguided attempt at cost-cutting. Beyond lecturing students about the consequences of unsafe...
...Woods emphasized that the GPSTS was indifferent to the overall gaming bill and was only concerned with having the online poker ban removed from the legislation. Still, the union members who demonstrated at the event said that the bill should be approved in its current form. Robert Black, a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 25, said that online poker was directing money out of state and that banning online poker and building casinos would redirect that money to Massachusetts. While Black added that the proposed casinos were crucial to revitalizing blighted parts of the state, he nevertheless...