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Sociology and African-American studies professor Michèle Lamont, an expert on the dynamics of social exclusion in France and the United States, was recently named the new diversity dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Although Lamont will officially assume her post in late January, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer joked that like the Obama transition team, Lamont will have to “hit the ground running” in light of the current financial crisis and the fact that Harvard lags behind peer institutions in faculty diversity...
...girls coming out of the Wellesley shuttle were never as reckless as I had hoped they’d be. I decided to put all my eggs in one basket: the Dewey Decimal System basket. I figured the kind of girl I wanted would hang out at Lamont in the 636s: Animal Husbandry. (For all those nerds who are complaining that Lamont doesn’t use the Dewey Decimal System, two words: magical realism.) Finding no one to saddle up with in the 636s, I moved on and checked out a copy of the “Protestant Ethic?...
...desire to downplay the affiliation is unmistakable. When asked to disclose his acquaintance with a group of students greeting him one morning in the Yard, his slowness to answer foreshadows the inevitable response. The students are members of the Fly, he says.TALK THE (GIRL) TALKSchwartz cannot walk into Lamont Library or into a dining hall without striking up a conversation, high-fiving someone, or at the very least saying hello to two or three people—all of which is interspersed with seemingly endless Blackberry correspondence. Whether he is going door-to-door campaigning or just going through...
Library inhabitants frantically typing to meet paper deadlines may soon be surprised to find themselves with a few extra minutes on hand. Lamont Library launched a pilot program that allows users to print directly from their laptops last week. Before, students could only print documents on library printers after transferring their them to a Lamont desktop. In order to take advantage of the program, students and others FAS affiliates must first install PaperCut, a printing interface that charges users five cents a page to print. Non-FAS affiliates can also download Pharos Mobile to print for 10 cents a page...