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...will feel embarrassed when he is abused by his fellow classmates for following an inferior tradition.”Yet, Anu Mandavilli, a spokeswoman for Friends of 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...
...Gross and his senior staff use survey results to “inform our priorities,” he wrote in an e-mail Friday. And, as he indicated in an interview last month, the College has tried to improve the areas that student surveys have shown need work...
...past year we have spent more words on art-house one-time band-of-the-moment Lightning Bolt than on double platinum success Carrie Underwood. What explains this? The snobbery of music writers? The difficulty in getting promo copies of albums from piracy-paranoid major labels? The desire to inform our readership about new and artistically interesting music? Whatever the case, we don’t write much on what’s on the radio. To reverse this elitist trend, and to keep with the theme of the issue, below are three belated reviews of albums currently in Billboard?...
...crucial that students continue to keep afoot of campus happenings. Harvard stands at a critical moment in its history: as the University braces to choose a new leader, and as the Harvard College Curricular Review lies fallow, students should seek an active role in both processes by staying informed on developments and voicing their opinions. And if the past week is any evidence, the student body has largely taken the opportunity to do this, with rapidly flowing blog posts, e-mail list missives, letters to campus newspapers, and grassroots political organization.The recent student awareness is a refreshing change from...
...most disappointingly, there has hardly been a response to this growing trend of hate directed towards Muslims on campus. Even after Farid requested that a community advisory be sent out to inform the campus about her assault, the College did nothing. Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 of the KSG responded with an email to his students. It is troubling that no email was sent expressing the College’s “concern for the welfare” of Muslim students...