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...monolithic….Look at the history of this country—you see a lot of African Americans today with Native American ancestry.” And the proof is in the pudding, as they say.The great ambition of BAF is two-fold: the hosts of the festival intend to explore black cultural heritage through multiple artistic media—theater, dance, music, film—while also crossing countless national borders. They plan to pay homage to black art as a cohesive entity while also preserving the distinctive qualities of each culture represented. As Mgbako puts...
...don’t intend to defend every part of Mahtani’s argument. I’m not sure that Dewey is really as inane as his comments—as captured by Mahtani—made him seem. In the past, I thought of Dewey as more of a moderate thinker than many others from his side of the aisle. But that’s not the point. Those who were scandalized by Mahtani’s bluntness need to take a look at their own arguments and ask themselves why, exactly, they were so shocked...
...isolationism" and "protectionism," by which he means the growing public impatience with foreign military adventures, foreign economic competition and illegal foreign immigrants. Bush sees this, rightly, as a national turn toward pessimism. "We shouldn't fear the future," he said at a Republican fund raiser last week, "because we intend to shape the future...
...graduate school. While the EPC urges all concentrations to limit the number of required courses to a level consistent with the goals of a broad liberal arts education, we have no interest in stipulating a course cap for individual students. In most departments, it makes sense for students who intend to pursue graduate studies to take more courses than students with other goals, and this is precisely the reason why a minimum number of concentration credits should not be calculated to suit the small number of students who intend to go on to academic careers. Furthermore, most other undergraduate institutions...
...UC’s role in social planning on campus became the hottest issue of the election. Haddock and Riley both said during the campaign that the UC should play a more limited role in direct social programming. Riley and Haan said yesterday that they intend to keep meeting with students to discuss the role that student groups should play in a proposed committee that would plan campus-wide events. “In general, we are meeting with student leaders and student groups who have contributed to social events and community at Harvard,” Riley said after...