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...leader in the campus Native American community, died Wednesday in his home state of Minnesota, according to Leverett House Master Howard Georgi ’68. He was 24. The news spread quickly through Harvard’s Native American community yesterday. Meat played drums for the Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe and once served as president of Native American Students at Harvard (NAHC). He had planned to attend powwows during the peak summer season, said NAHC President Leah R. Lussier ’07, and had invited others to join him. Meat was taking time off this semester to spend...
...concentrations aim to have secondary field proposals ready for EPC approval sometime this fall, including Astronomy, The Classics, English and American Literature and Language, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Folklore and Mythology, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Sociology, Statistics, and Film Studies, a track in the VES department, according to department chairs and directors of undergraduate studies.Departments that will consider allowing next year’s seniors to declare a secondary field in their area include Astronomy, English, Government, History, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology...
...upcoming Harvard Sangeet performance is any hint of the types of performances to be highlighted at Arts First, then next week promises to be as diverse and varied as it is interesting and talented. The one-hour show will give the audience a glimpse into a traditional South Indian music called Carnatic. Vocalists Samir V. Rao ’08 and Vasanthi Sridhar ’07 will perform, accompanied on traditional Carnatic instruments by violinist Vivek A. Rudrapatna ’06, and mridangam (a double sided South Indian drum) player Shakeel Avadhany (MIT ’09). According...
...public policy and business development.” BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMIDAfter studying the role of business in international development, Chyau, a native of Taiwan, and So, a native of Hong Kong, began thinking about starting a social enterprise last March. Chyau and So say they were inspired by Indian economist C.K. Prahalad’s 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which suggested that doing business with the world’s poorest 4 billion people can be profitable to the firms and beneficial to the poor...
...Stories” recently was added to the list of novels that Viswanathan allegedly lifted from, criticized the sophomore yesterday.“I do not accept the idea that this could have been accidentally or innocently done,” Rushdie told CNN-IBN, an Indian-based network. “The passages are too many and the similarities are too extensive.”Rushdie said he blamed both Viswanathan and her publisher for the fiasco. “I know when I write a book, it is my name on the book,” he said...