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...organization might not be the best place for political activism. According to Donahue, when the BGLTSA held an open forum to discuss ways of improving the club last spring, people were asking whether it should even have a political role. The forum did not reach a conclusion on this matter, but Donahue has her own opinion. Regardless of what organization takes responsibility for it, students at Harvard should have the ability to be active on these issues. She isn’t ready to give up the BGLTSA’s political arm, but welcomes any outside partnerships.Recognizing the opportunity...
...Believe it or not, non-conference doesn’t matter, and that was beneficial to us last season,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “Dartmouth’s record is deceptive, and we won’t pay any attention to it. [Coach Chris Wielgus] has got them playing hard—they don’t have as many wins as she’s used to, but they’re going to be tough...
While a team’s non-conference record doesn’t matter in the standings—as the Ivy League knows all too well after watching the Crimson coast to a conference title after an abysmal performance in November and December last season—Harvard recognizes the importance of being able to work out its kinks and identify its shortcomings before the games that count begin...
...American-Asian animosity, with the undergraduate concentration approved in the early 1970s at the height of China’s Cultural Revolution, during and after Cold War military animosity with Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Some Eastern academic programs at the time were in fact governmentally sponsored as a matter of national defense. During these early years of East Asian studies, graduate students expressed much discontent; one criticism was that the department expressly refused teaching fellows permission to teach a class on Chinese communism. According to Richard P. Bernstein, a teaching fellow at the time, the department also minimized the aggressive...
...speechwriters, there are three stock rhetorical approaches: declare victory (even if you didn't win); declare viability (and the desire to fight another day), or decide that the results didn't matter (and that the cause continues...