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...culture we’re in, specifically, disability is something to be cured; it’s something to be frightened of,” he says. Similarly, the disabled are relegated to a mental world and rarely given the opportunity to express themselves corporeally. “People learn to work with you from the neck up,” he explains. But the dance project complicates personal attitudes towards disability in vital ways; instead of praising the efforts of GIMP’s cast in hackneyed ways, calling them inspirational or courageous, the audience is meant to recognize...
...plays a large role in nurturing and maintaining Harvard’s small group of DIY devotees. Largely based around punk and hardcore music, the intensive comp process involves weekly lectures about different genres as well as a weekly listening assignment of about 10 albums. “You learn about this from a very historical perspective,” former RH director Baris C. Ercal ’10 says. “It’s all contextualized. Everything is just put together in a way that’s very interesting, and I feel like, in particular...
...opportunity to perform with both Haynes and Hargrove. Everett hopes that these opportunities for Harvard students to play with seasoned musical celebrities will facilitate the passing on of their traditions and abilities. By playing with Roy Haynes and Roy Hargrove, Everett says, the students have the opportunity to learn from their predecessors: “The students are being passed down all that [Haynes] has learned from the people he has played with. These students who played with him will be part of thatconnection...
Okay, so maybe every Harvard student doesn’t have to know any of these things. At all. Under any circumstance. Regardless, if anyone really did want to learn about the showdown between squirrels and dogs, the evolution of the connotation behind the word “squirrel,” and every single Harvard-related newspaper article about squirrel encounters, the Harvard Squirrel Archive is surely a new addition to the Bookmarks Bar. For FlyBy and the remaining 99.99% of the population, this is just another huge WTF: a test case in what can happen when the internet...
...politics is full of things countable and not. We can indeed learn about some of the most interesting things in politics —votes, campaign contributions, election returns, government spending—by quantifying them. If, like tens of thousands of other readers, you followed Nate Silver’s electoral projections at www.538.com this past fall, you were reading the fruits of modern political science, which has made important contributions to survey research and applied statistics...