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Some Harvard extracurriculars create potentially uncomfortable power dynamics. Take, for example, the famous First-Year Outdoor Program rule “No hop on FOP” or the prefect-prefectee hookup ban. Given the presence of undergrad teaching fellows in departments like math, things would seem to get a little more complicated in the academic arena. What if that guy or girl you hooked up with last spring turns out to be your teacher this fall...
...There is not a lot of romance in the math department,” says Jim A. Fowler ’03, who has been a course assistant (CA) for Math 23, 25, 126 and 272. One possible explanation for this lack of love, Fowler speculates, is the gender disparity in the department means male-female friendships are rare, and students don’t want to ruin those that do exist by dating...
...spoken to people who were in the math department when he was at Harvard, none of whom remember him. He kept to himself, to put it mildly...
...intentions of the play is to shatter that “tortured genius” sentimentality. Kaczynski was certainly a math prodigy of sorts, skipped two grades and so on. But mathematicians seem to concur that his research topic, boundary functions, was a backwater, a narrow field of limited interest. As for his image as a political visionary, if you spend some time with the manifesto and the works that inspired its writing, you’ll see how unoriginal a document it is. It’s a mix of borrowed ideas and personal pathology (e.g. things he?...
Steven M. Berzin ’72: The 1969 riots were right outside my window in Stoughton. I stayed in the room with my roommate for the most part. I think we might have gone to the door, but we didn’t go outside. My Math 21 TF had been arrested and he was always urging us to go to demonstrations like this. But I wasn’t supporting it—I thought it was awful, taking over a University building...