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Despite the fact that Taubman currently serves as the chair of the advisory committee, the committee’s annual meetings are often held in New York—and not at Harvard itself??€”to accommodate his schedule...
Sacks grew up in an affluent Jewish household in London during the World War II—a story in itself??€”but was sent away to a country boarding school during the peak of the war to avoid the dangers of wartime. Psychologically abused by his headmaster, far from the comforts of home and the love of a fascinating, scientifically-inclined extended family that included doctors, mathematicians, chemists and mining consultants, Sacks sought a sense of security the only way he could—through scientific experimentation...
University President Larry H. Summers said it best in his inaugural address, emphasizing the importance of learning as an end to itself??€”separate and distinct from all attempts to make it practical or (horrors!) vocational. “The practical effectiveness of what we do must never obscure what is most special and distinctive about universities like this one: that they are communities in which truth, Veritas, is pursued first and last as an end in itself??€”not for any tangible reward or worldly impact...
Loker, however, does not have to remain an symbol of the administration’s abysmal failure to provide student space. While it could never become a proper student center itself??€”the space is too limiting—it could at least be transformed into a more welcoming student space. Immediately, a student-administration committee to redesign Loker Commons over next summer should be convened. Students must be involved in the redesign so as to create a Loker that says living room and not cafeteria. It will take more than a jukebox to make the transition, but some...
...with a greater number, to spread whatever message they have (or pretend to have), rather than stroking the angsty egos of a highly insular—and an increasingly elitist and hierarchical—punk culture. They are, in a sense, punks within (or relative to) the punk culture itself??€”and that’s about as punk...