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...systematic botany.The College will add new funds to the $9,000 currently designated to Houses for advising in order to compensate the new coordinators, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mailed statement.—Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Alexandra Hiatt can be reached at ahiatt@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu...
...Christian B. Flow and Rachel L. Pollack contributed to the reporting of this story...
...Howl of this movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...
Full disclosure: I have two young sons, and if anything, Pollack gets my experience unsettlingly right. I live in Brooklyn, which along with the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles is the apparent epicenter of the hipster-parent movement. When one of my kids requests the Magnetic Fields on the iPod, I swell with pride as fathers of another era did when their sons completed touchdown passes. And if it's easy to criticize Pollack's preciousness, it's because, like a good, self-aware Gen Xer, he does it for you. "I wonder," he writes, "what Ariel Dorfman, Primo...