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...South Asia, a San Francisco-based peace organization, said teaching issues such as the caste system are necessary to cultivate an informed sixth grader.She said that while all religions should be depicted accurately, educating students about patriarchy and the caste system does not make a textbook anti-Hindu.Mandavilli said the function of learning history is “to inform the present,” and that Hindu children can only be empowered to address discrimination if they learn about it in their own context.“Should we not talk about slavery in white classrooms because it will make...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Letter, Prof Gets Hate E-mail | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...taught seminars.After an initial planning meeting, “we were all very enthusiastic,” he said. Many professors said they expect that the concentration choice delay proposal will be passed in some form this spring, along with an EPC proposal to create secondary fields, which would function like minors. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke will introduce this proposal to the faculty tomorrow. Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, who is also a member of the General Education Committee, said he thinks most faculty members are ready to vote...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FAS Could Delay Concentrations | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...minors how to be prostitutes. The documentaries - available online and in video stores - explain the vocabulary and rules of pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function of instructing vulnerable juveniles how to work with a pimp and indoctrinating them into the world's oldest profession. "We see this across the board in terms of pimps using videos to glamorize and glorify the profession," says FBI spokesman Paul Bresson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Pimp Films Too Instructive? | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...unconventional forms, are well along in transforming the language of architecture. That means a future with more buildings that are whimsical, sensual and possessed of a substantial wow factor. In the end, however much the Parasol works as a caf or a concert venue, wowing may be its abiding function. That's one reason Terence Riley, the chief architecture curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, decided to feature the Parasol in "On-Site: New Architecture in Spain," a show that runs at the museum through May 1. "This thing has the same purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Curveballs Are In Play | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...word of this project.”Even though the rest of the art will move to an office building in Allston, Manoogian insists that the move there has already received tremendous support. “The interim site is not going to be a warehouse. It will function as a museum. We are hiring an architect to redesign the building.” Manoogian says that there will be exhibitions, public programming, research, teaching, and storage space for the 250,000 objects in the collection—which comprise the sixth-largest collection of art in the world. HUAM...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trading Spaces: Art To Migrate During Museum Renovations | 3/10/2006 | See Source »

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