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Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Deborah Foster, who oversees UTEP, said in an e-mail that she is delighted to be working with Gutlerner on behalf of those Harvard students interested in pursuing careers in teaching...
...tremendous amount to offer UTEP,” Foster wrote. “He is passionate about teaching and about the enormous importance of public education...
...don’t tell?” Hardly. It is not Harvard’s job to act as chaperones to those students who might, by some opponents’ logic, fall prey to military recruiters. Rather, it is Harvard’s place to foster an open and democratic debate and, as an American institution of higher education, to support our country’s armed forces. Harvard’s antidiscrimination policy may have been made with the best of intentions, but ROTC's presence would not imply Harvard’s official imprimatur, and would hardly...
...into the collective psyche of the American right wing, something I like to call the Dan Burton Principle. You may know Dan Burton as a senior Republican Congressman from my state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into a large fruit in his back yard. (I say “large fruit” because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven...
...word weirdness, a student’s original classical composition (which was nap time in the mezzanine), and—the evening’s absolute low point—a performance described as “drawing upon...works by Sam Shepard, T.S. Eliot, Jose Saragamo and David Foster Wallace.” Maybe its subtle, subversive point was to prove that name-dropping doesn’t cut it where theater is concerned. During these pieces, the best seats in the house were those from which you could observe Summers trying his best not to squirm...