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...recipients of the three awards—one senior faculty member, one junior faculty member, and one teaching fellow—are selected each year by the Undergraduate Council from a pool of candidates nominated by students. Each award is presented by one of the students who nominated that particular honoree. East Asian Languages and Civilizations department chair Michael Puett was given the senior faculty award by Roland Lamb ’06-’08, who was the Chinese history professor’s advisee for four years before graduating this past January...
...President Faust, for example, imagined herself at the vanguard of a new era in civil rights. “As a civil war historian in particular,” she cannot but help “think about what military service meant to African Americans.” Thus, a policy that bars the right of homosexuals openly to serve in the military is a “badge of degradation and second-class citizenship.” With such stakes, President Faust cannot fathom keeping her silence...
...Science, Technology, and Society” received a nasty shock. When they checked their inboxes, they learned that their professor, Priya Venkatesan, was planning to sue them for discrimination. Later investigations revealed that she also planned to sue the College and several faculty members, not referring to any particular episode, but mentioning the “hostility” she felt during her time as a professor and saying that “maybe it has something to do with my ethnicity or my gender...
...don’t know very much about the world’s nations—after all, nearly two-thirds of U.S. citizens from 18 to 24 years old could not find Iraq on a map in 2006 —it seems that local folks have a particular affinity for the ignorant invocation of Canada in their political discourse...
...also gets to sink its teeth into the show’s many variations on “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd,” a jittering, melodic, gothic theme that drives what is surely one of the best opening scenes of any musical.One of these variations, in particular, sticks in my mind. Three tenors, in spot-on close harmony, stretch the theme’s muscular second half into a single, eerie legato line, singing, “See your razor gleam, Sweeney / See how well it fits / As it floats across the throats of hypocrites...