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...Harvard continues its tradition as a leading institution of higher education because of its human resources. Though Harvard will never be able to establish the close-knit community of a small liberal arts college like Williams, it can make faculty openness to student interaction a higher priority. Biannual arranged dinners should not be the climax of student-faculty interaction for those who would appreciate more...
...Although health education and wellness classes are two of our goals, our real mission is to find ways to foster building close-knit House communities. CHI is based on the idea of bringing the House community together by involving the House masters, tutors, UHS affiliates and existing campus groups in workshops, classes, dinner discussions and campus-wide events. Building genuinely supportive communities in randomized housing will require some work, but that is necessary for Harvard to remain a vibrant institution...
...Among his top goals, the newly arrived Rudenstine cited improving undergraduate education, diversity and student aid. Above all, he intended to “knit the University together” by creating programs between the faculties and introducing the first post-war provost. Rudenstine wanted to shift the age-old University paradigm of “every tub on its own bottom” to “every tub on each other’s bottom,” to create an interdependent relationship between the many tubs—aka faculties—of the University...
Johnson is a writer of some success—his pseudo-novel Jesus’ Son, comprised of close-knit stories, was recently filmed. In addition to novels and stories, Johnson also writes poetry, and from reading Seek you’d know it. His sparkling prose is simultaneously laconic and melancholy, marked by a sense of inner wonder as he travels around and talks, thinks and sometimes writes about it. He marvelously describes scenes and contrasts them with what their inhabitants are up to. “West Africa,” he writes...
...kreung crowd tend to hang tight, dining, drinking and dating together. "We understand each other," says Nicole Terio, one of the group. "It comes from knowing what it means to grow up between two cultures." But the luk kreung's close-knit community and Western-stoked confidence sometimes elicits grumbles from other Thais, who also resent their stranglehold on the entertainment industry. The ultimate blow came a few years back when Thailand sent a blue-eyed woman to the Miss World competition. Sirinya Winsiri, also known as Cynthia Carmen Burbridge, beat out another half-Thai, half-American for the coveted...