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...many, Sunday afternoons dredge up the image of gallons of coffee, hours at Lamont, and inexplicable rashes. But for a select few, this past Sunday meant something a little less stressful, something more along the lines of a nice game of??Gaga. What? Don’t worry, non-Jews can play too. So what is Gaga? Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08, one of the organizers of the event, explains. “It’s a form of dodgeball thought to have originated in Israel, usually played in a sandy...
...reality is that the Harvard name has already become generic to a great extent. Google the phrase “the Harvard of?? and you receive over 50,000 unlicensed analogies, including “the Harvard of dog-training schools,” “the Harvard of county jails,” and “the Harvard of Hair,” which all employ that precious trademark to indicate the acme of some discipline. No doubt this gives the good people at the Trademark Program troubled dreams and indigestion, but the fact remains...
...Faculty has recently affirmed that a Harvard education should “seek to prepare students for civic engagement, to teach students to understand themselves as products of??and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values, to prepare students to respond critically and constructively to change, and to develop students’ understanding of the ethical dimensions of what they say and do.” Exploring gender, and challenging gender inequity, complements these goals, and will thus continue to be the focus of our work. Far from having a rigid view of what gender...
...Another vaunted cornerstone of liberal education, “ethical awareness,” demands exposure to “beliefs and values that have shaped others’ lives, historically and internationally.” General education also “teaches students to understand themselves as products of??and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values.” And, as the report quite explicitly averred, students “need to a have an understanding of American history...
HDAG is targeting Schlumberger for divestment because of the company’s ties to the Sudanese oil industry. According to a report by the Sudan Divestment Task Force—a national activist group that HDAG is a member of??Schlumberger has increased the number of oil rigs it has in Sudan by 400% since the start of the genocide...