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Over the last few decades, the secular study of religion on America's campuses has become a right-wing pinata. In the full understanding that they are swimming against the cultural, if not the academic, stream the folks at the new Institute pulled out Rushdie, who, although he is not one of their faculty members, writes fiction that acknowledges the centrality of faith to culture without the author's pious participation. From his astounding breakthrough work, Midnight's Children, through his current The Enchantress of Florence, he has been obsessed with both formal and informal belief, but from the point...
...stand in my H-44 common room. There’s a huge mattress on the floor that my roommates Grainne and Angela found, somewhere, and a gray three-part couch we inherited from Grainne’s sister. A bag of candy in the corner from my birthday pinata sits next to tubes of nontoxic tempera paint and Angela’s swathes of brightly-colored cloth. I could tell you the story of each of these items. When I walk through Harvard Yard, past Massachusetts Hall, I remember standing outside with a notebook, witness to three weeks...
...Political Pinata--Full of Farm Products...
According to Maria Cabrera, a parent from Jamaica Plain, La Pinata is a community group that centers on folk dance. It pairs Latino Harvard students with neighborhood children for tutoring and mentoring...
Oscar Ramos '01, who heads the Harvard delegation to La Pinata, also leads Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan, one of two Harvard dance groups which performed last night. The group wore southwestern dress for traditional dances such as Me Traes and Pecas from the northern regions of Mexico...