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...like to hear more from readers about your past??and undoubtedly future—experiences about trying to get The Crimson to correct itself. Email me at ombudsman@thecrimson.com and I’ll report on the reader consensus in a future column...
Part of it could be a misguided effort to divorce themselves from their slave-owning past??an unsubtle attempt at historical revisionism. But more important is the emphasis on maintaining a “pure” tribe of Indians by blood—the insecure, marginalized community striking out at its own marginalized minority. The Cherokees’ concern with preserving their culture and heritage enables their most vocal members to play on tribal fears...
Undine moves in with her parents in Brooklyn, a step that particularly stings because she had erased her past??by telling a magazine that her family died in a fire—when she first started moving up in the world. Throughout the next several months, Undine faces pregnancy, welfare, and the consequences of severing her past. She is also arrested for buying heroin for her grandmother...
...long last the time seems ripe for Harvard to reform its archaic calendar, a change that cannot come a year too soon. The roadblocks that have stood in the way of this change in the past??most notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students...
...least 35 professors are backing an amendment that would explicitly include “the study of the past?? in the legislation implementing the proposed new general education curriculum. The amendment will likely be taken up at next Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Along with nine other amendments released to professors yesterday, the history proposal represents significant faculty concern about a general education program that Harvard’s leaders are hoping will be approved by professors by the end of the academic year. The amendment aims both to insert...