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DIED. NAM JUNE PAIK, 74, impish Korean-born avant-gardist deemed the inventor of video art who in the 1960s won acclaim with works that simultaneously celebrated and spoofed the fledgling notion of media overload; of natural causes; in Miami. Inspired by iconoclast composer John Cage, he created such renowned installations as Video Fish, an array of 52 live monitors, each obscured by fish-filled aquariums...
...Andrew B. Paik ’07, an economics concentrator who is enrolled in MIT’s accounting class, said that he doesn’t think that Harvard should offer its own version of the course...
...Harvard has always been about liberal arts and teaching students how to think, and I think it does a good job doing that,” said Paik. “If you offer an accounting class, people are going to want a marketing class. It would be a push toward a business education at Harvard, and I don’t see that happening...
...School is not responsive, there could be a lot of anger in the community,” Paik said...
...Lambda members staged a “sit-in” at the Law School student center, Harkness Commons, to voice their opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And in the past, Paik said, Law School students have protested recruitment by signing up for interviews with recruiters in order to waste the military officers’ time...