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...been struck by how many people, you know, kind of jaded from the contemporary art world, come in and say ‘oh my god it feels so fresh.” Proctor expands the seemingly trivializing maxim of Fluxus—the notion that “anything can be art and anyone can do it”—by explaining its central themes in terms of contemporary society. Rather than limiting art to the elite, Proctor says, Fluxus aims to renegotiate the position of art in the social structure. “[Fluxus] is really...
...example, when you peruse CNN.com’s Education home page, the prominently-featured links often send readers to a Harvard-angled story. This speaks to a widespread media notion that people desire any Harvard news as opposed to important Harvard news. Is our curricular review really that interesting to an outsider...
Everybody—students,professors and other faculty alike—came here with some notion of being a pioneer, part of a group of people who would rightly capture the media attention for our various endeavors. But the media should not reward us if those endeavors don’t truly turn out to be newsworthy. There’s a media assumption out there: That this is Harvard’s world, and everybody else is just living in it. In reality, I’m sure there’s more news out there. It?...
...perspective, because they better understand the strains and stresses acting upon their peers than faculty or administrators. Being judged by one’s peers also adds an air of legitimacy—we need only look to the American judicial system for an example, which has this notion as its cornerstone. Consequently, we believe that students should serve as full voting members of the administrative board. Allowing students to vote may not change the outcome of any instance of Ad Board review, but it would work to dispel the image of the board as a shadowy and removed tribunal.That...
...Chicago Sun-Times sanctimoniously excoriated the Court for having “endorsed a wrongheaded law” and “lent credence to the unsettling notion that Congress” can interfere with personal medical decisions. Yet, in the same breath, the Windy City daily conceded the “admittedly unsettling aspect of partial-birth abortions” and confessed that “any kind of abortion procedure can be grim...