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...While this possibility seems unlikely, some of the women who wished for hours of their own say they would support such a plan. Ola Aljawhary ’09, an HIS board member who served as a liaison between her student group and the Women’s Center in coordinating these efforts, was very understanding of concerns about the discrepancy in resources. She told me that a push for men-only hours would be “perfectly justified,” emphasizing that she would not feel offended as a woman...
...director of athletics. “We tried to target times that were less utilized by others in a facility that has less use than others,” This new policy of women-only hours particularly benefits Muslim women, allowing them to exercise in a more comfortable environment. Ola Aljawhary ’09, chair of the Harvard Islamic Society’s Islamic Knowledge Committee says, “The idea has been floating around for a while and now it actually materialized, so it’s really exciting.” Aljawhary worked in conjunction with...
...Alissa Cooperman ’10 choreographed a strong piece to Ciara’s “Like A Boy.” Costumed in DHAs and cut-off tees, Ola S. Canty ’11, Samantha R. Reiser ’11, Odstrcil and Cooperman effectively captured the song’s focus on liberation. The choreography, which focused on shoulder movements and torso contractions, expertly expressed the masculinity of Ciara’s words while maintaining fluid transitions between steps...
...Chinese teenager “yao mai yi ge DVD” (wants to buy a DVD). The globalization of English is, it seems, unstoppable. In response, political institutions around the world are attempting to halt English’s spread. The Real Academia Española (RAE)—the Spanish institution that publishes the “official” Spanish dictionary—refuses to recognize words that “rupture the linguistic system in its totality” or “endanger the language’s unity ,” i.e. American...
...Terms of Use” page, which forbids users from posting “any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” Ola Aljawhary ’09, the Islamic knowlege officer of the Harvard Islamic Society, said she believes that the attention paid to the anti-Islam Facebook group only exacerbates the problem. “These groups are crying for attention, and by creating a whole group trying to combat that group...