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...across real disciplinary boundaries, bringing together scientists and humanists: that was hard to find. And the phenomenon, I discovered, wasn’t limited to undergraduates. Harvard’s 12 residential houses are led by 12 academic couples, and there’s little interdisciplinary mixing among them. Kirkland House masters: both Romance Languages and Literatures. Lowell’s house masters: both Religion. Adams House masters Sean and Judith Palfrey: both doctors, both specializing in pediatrics. Sean Palfrey laughed at me when I asked him about love between disciplines, but he said there were definite advantages...
...Lester. “She plays so much garbage,” complained cook Nick F. Heron, who tries to alternate between eighties, rock, and country music to avoid dance mixes. “The constant beat drives me crazy after a while,” he explained. Kirkland varies its styles, with anything from seventies to Rage Against the Machine playing at the grill. But the true music aficionado of K-House is card swiper Tommy Hardy, a club bouncer with a Clash-inspired tommy gun tattoo and his own iPod dock stationed at his desk. Despite his diverse...
...Harvard Black Students Association kicked off Black History Month Friday with its fourth annual Crimson & Black Banquet in Kirkland House, honoring CNN political correspondent Soledad M. O’Brien ’88. Entitled “The Good Fight: Champions and Political Change,” the banquet celebrated student public service initiatives and political efforts surrounding the campaign and inauguration of president Barack Obama. “This time we were history. This time we changed history,” said George J. J. Hayward ’11, the BSA’s political action chair...
Ellen C. Bryson ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Cabot House. Matthew H. Ghazarian ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a government concentrator in Kirkland House. Eugene Kim ’10, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Kirkland House...
...who’s built a career writing gritty films like “Raging Bull” and directing urban classics like “American Gigolo.” Schrader was present at two of the six HFA screenings and also reached out to students at Kirkland House and in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) during his time in Cambridge.As a student himself in the late sixties and early seventies, Schrader did not plan to become a director. He received a late introduction to the world of film, prevented by his strict Calvinist background from...