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...under the seats on the ventilation grates, is a repeating pattern: three vertical lines, followed by three horizontal lines. To most, this is the kind of detail which has little meaning, but to Adams, it was the word “meme” written over and over. The pattern??and the word it encodes—stuck, and became the logo of the Gallery.The word ‘meme’ stems from the Greek word, mimema, defined as “something imitated.” It is a cultural unit as basic to our thoughts...
...also extremely vague. It defines harassment as engaging in a “pattern of conduct” that would cause a reasonable person to suffer “substantial emotional distress.” But what period of time results in the distinction of a “pattern?? rather than haphazard nastiness? And what does “substantial” entail for the “average” person? Suicide? A few tears...
...Extension School serves a critical purpose: It offers everybody the opportunity for advanced study at Harvard, regardless of prior Harvard affiliation. In this way, the school enables a broad swath of people who don’t fit into a “traditional” degree pattern??from those who want to finish their undergraduate degree later in life to those who simply want to take a course for fun—to fulfill their educational goals. Because the Extension School’s target audience includes the general public just as much as currently enrolled extension...
Citing several examples, including “the unfortunate incident” with Cornel R. West ’74 and Summers’ remarks on women in science, Harper wrote that he saw a “pattern?? in the president’s behavior...
Harper wrote that he “saw a pattern?? in Summers’ public remarks on women and minorities, citing his 2002 feud with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, his comments at a Native American conference in September 2004, and his now infamous remarks on women in science in January...