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...sexual harassment, and public service. Much of the discussion surrounded the current state of the program in the upperclass Houses, which was characterized as ambiguous and inconsistent. While House Masters assign tutors to these roles, many do not receive training or are unclear as to their responsibilities. Suzy M. Nelson, the associate dean of residential life, said tutors are hired, in part, based on their expertise in areas such as law, writing, or medicine, but House masters often struggle to fill other positions. “You might not have someone who is really interested in job number...
...first awards ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on March 16, 1950, co-sponsored by three other literary organizations in a coup of writers awarding other writers. Nelson Algren won in the fiction category for his tragic American hero story, The Man with the Golden Arm, William Carlos Williams in the poetry category for his work Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems, and Dr. Ralph Rusk in the nonfiction category for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The New York Times noted the following day that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren...
...homeland" at the height of the apartheid era in South Africa. Critics argued that he was profiting from a much-criticized feature of the apartheid regime; Kerzner countered that Sun City was a place where blacks and whites broke racial barriers by partying together. Kerzner later became friends with Nelson Mandela, attending the South African hero's 90th birthday party in London in June. By the time apartheid fell, Kerzner was selling off his properties in South Africa and going global, notably with the launch of the Atlantis in Paradise Island in 1996 - a spectacular success that revived tourism...
Garrett G.D. Nelson ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator in Cabot House. He is writing a thesis on the historical ethnography of the American rural imagination...
...Jasanoff’s parents are also on the Harvard faculty.Although most Harvard professors may seem as old as Harvard itself, some departments feature recent Harvard graduates, like Jasanoff, who return to Harvard to teach after relatively short hiatuses in the real world. Assistant Professor of Government Eric M. Nelson ’99 abandoned his decision to attend law school. “I became increasingly fascinated with what I was doing,” says Nelson, who is also a former Crimson editor. After graduating from the College, he journeyed to the U.K. on a Marshall Scholarship, finally...