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...Judith L. Ryan, a German literature professor and member of the Faculty Council docket committee, said that the 18-member governing body of FAS hoped his presentation next week would usher in a broader discussion about free speech at Harvard...
...Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at child@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Nov. 8 news article "Professor To Bring Free Speech Motion to Faculty" wrongly identified German literature professor Judith L. Ryan as a member of the Faculty Council's docket committee. She is no longer a member of the docket committee...
...Harvard-affiliated groups have always had to register their officers with the College, unaffiliated organizations, such as final clubs, have not been required to do so until this year. All groups have also been asked to return a signed non-hazing agreement by Dec. 15.Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said she has discussed the registration policy with several unaffiliated organizations, and that she expects them to generally comply. Leaders of several final clubs declined to comment.“We’re leaning towards signing, but there’s still a lot of issues that...
...within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served to commemorate the department’s founder, C. Frederick Mosteller, a specialist in public health, medicine, and education who died last summer. “Fred was the constant educator,” Conant Professor of Education Judith D. Singer said in a speech Friday afternoon. Mosteller served as the department’s first chairman when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) established it, after a two-minute faculty debate, in 1957. Previously, statistics courses at Harvard had been taught within other departments. Statisticians...
Bulimia, tofu, and Anne Frank are among the disparate subjects up for discussion in “Cleopatra’s Nose,” a collection of 20 years of Judith Thurman’s writing. In these diverse essays, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Thurman explores several “varieties of desire.” She centers her analysis loosely around a simple question: why do people—particularly artists, but others as well—choose the paths they do? Though the collection is necessarily a bit incoherent, Thurman?...