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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Without his influence, it might be even harder to get more diversity on our faculty," Giang Hong, a sophomore in Noguera's class told the Daily...
...They are doing a lot to get things moving. It's not just where you would expect it--in African-American Studies--it's in traditional academic departments," he told the Daily...
...get me wrong: Harvard students can be, and often are, great. They just aren't intellectuals. Sure, that first night the entire dorm gathered in somebody's common room and shared a bunch of ideas about what college was supposed to be, about where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...
...probably important to define what I mean by intellectuals. I mean people who have a tendency to answer questions with questions and to think not inside or outside the box as much as about the box itself. The intellectual may not get the recruiting job or the place in the U.S. Senate, but he or she may win a MacArthur Prize or be invited to Sweden for a hefty award down the line. Many of you may be recoiling in disgust, but if a good philosophical conversation interests you and you can't find the right conversation partner, then...
...politic are those who, despite their feelings on an issue, "just don't want to get into it." Maybe they feel the exchange of ideas will leave them where they are anyway and just create tension in a rooming group or a friendship. "It's just not worth it," they think, and so they are willing to step back and keep their ideas to themselves. They can see Harvard isn't the place where each existential moment deserves its own observations, where "what it all means" might be as important as the bottom line...