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...Despite his professed inability to get a good shot, Kelsey’s academic career has focused on the history of photography and the myriad problems of reading and understanding photographs throughout history...
...tourists as I typed away furiously at my BlackBerry. My long legs enable me to reach the Science Center from my room in Quincy House in exactly five-and-a-half minutes, regardless of weather conditions; this has proven invaluable on a number of occasions. My course load and myriad extracurricular commitments have provided an unbelievably fulfilling and awesome experience, but have left me with far too many memories of those frenzied walks to class and far too few of relaxing walks by the river. Not that the river is really all that pleasant or relaxing most of the school...
...Whether or not it did in fact advance beyond the effectiveness threshold of a planned economy, the Fainsod system—with its myriad dispersed committees—seems to have created confusion for students seeking a direct avenue to gather and voice a collective opinion. Looking for a more effective, centralized organ of student governance, undergraduates voted in 1978 to establish a 96-member body known as the Student Assembly. Though founded with optimism and ratified by student referendum, the Assembly never received official recognition from the University, nor did it receive any formal powers or funding. That...
...wonder if, based on all that we already have, Harvard can ever satisfy us. In fact, I wonder if anything will ever satisfy us. This year, two of Harvard’s recent Rhodes Scholars penned myriad complaints about the scholarship program and Oxford University, including the inadequacy of its library system, on the pages of this newspaper. I have the feeling that no institution we enter hereafter will ever fulfill our expectations or the standards we’ve become accustomed to, just as Harvard “never” did. Are we insatiable...
Sick Kids Need Involved People (SKIP) is the fulfillment of that promise. The organization has helped more than 7,000 families deal with the myriad issues that come up with home care for children on life support as well as those battling cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle-cell anemia, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, autism and other conditions. Margaret and her staff of 250 help families navigate the hospital, insurance and Medicaid systems; assist them with school and housing issues; and counsel parents on how to care for the healthy siblings of a sick child...