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Mansfield certainly deserves condemnation; but Rudenstine should not be allowed to escape a profound skepticism over the sincerity and consistency of the University's ostensible commitment to diversity. It is fair for Harvard students to hold their president to a high standard. It is fair for them to expect a certain level of candor and introspection when what is arguably America's top university issues so public a statement. It is fair to expect that Rudenstine, an English professor, be more probing and more honest than the glossy admissions and fundraising brochures the university produces in such high quantities...
...theater at Harvard, "Raised in Captivity" is the play that will change your mind. If you have never seen a play at Harvard, this will be the one that all others will be compared to. If you are a regular theatergoer, prepare to be amazed. "Raised in Captivity" is profound, surprisingly modern, witty, and unique. The cast in the current Loeb Mainstage production is superb, delivering Nicky Silver's quick wit and capturing the emotion and confusion that the play tries to achieve. It is able to keep the play from becoming too bizarre or weighed down by its heavy...
...campus. And La O did get off to a promising start. But members began to drop out and Santini was left feeling a bit sad and disappointed because there was no more "momentum." In closing her article, Santini asks the question: "Why?" And her answer is a most profound one: "division." Oh really...
There is delicacy and restraint in all these performances as they ease a far-fetched premise toward believability under Richard Pearce's clear, cool direction. The script by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson is obviously a fairy-tale, but the unsentimental realism of its telling, combined with our profound need to believe in it just now, turns A Family Thing into a curiously affecting little movie...
...course race and ethnicity can have a profound impact on shaping one's character and perspective. But it is the manifestation of this perspective which we should seek, not the race and ethnicity in and of itself. For Chicano students, this could entail growing up in a bilingual household, not just the fact their last names are Rodriguez, Fernandez or Lopez. For black students, it might come about through participating in black youth leadership conferences. But race by itself as an intrinsic fact should not be used to relax admissions criteria...