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...jury may be out on whether conservatives are less intelligent than liberals, but there's evidence that they may be physically stronger. Last year, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a fascinating paper by Aaron Sell, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The authors measured the strength of 343 students using weight-lifting machines at a gym. The participating students completed questionnaires designed to measure, among other things, their proneness to anger, their history of fighting and their fondness for aggression...
...mediums, including oil paintings, acrylics, ink drawings and film. Each of these art forms serves to convey the common themes of Escobedo’s examination of her family relationships and her exploration of death through the use of abstract shapes and symbols. The acrylic painting “Leda and the Swan,” inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem of the same title, is an intriguing conflagration of textures and shapes that arrest the eye with their unsettling imagery and piercing detail. Meanwhile, the eerie images of “Planting Railroad Spikes...
...Mass Hall have been a welcome reminder of the artistic vitality at Harvard,” says President Drew G. Faust, who initiated the creation of the Task Force in Fall 2007. Kayla A. Escobedo ’12—whose acrylic-on-masonite piece “Leda and the Swan” is an abstract, textured interpretation of William Yeats’ poem of the same name—commented on the University’s recent focus on the arts: “I think what President Faust and the College have been doing...
...think my counselor is very supportive, and some of my teachers are very supportive, and my family has been really supportive,” he says. And the LEDA program helped edit his essays and of course, told him about Early Action...
...even talking about knowing about the EA or ED: it’s something as simple as meeting basic requirements,” says Jolene A. Lane, executive director of LEDA. “Philosophically, anyone can participate in the college process. But in reality people don’t have the information to apply. There are counselors who’ve never heard of SAT IIs. Students are eliminated from the candidate pool because of a lack of information about and emphasis on tests...