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...moment, or in the recent past, to dramatically expand the faculty in this area.” And despite sporadic student activism, professors said, undergraduate advocates have failed to provide the steady pressure needed for change. “I don’t think that the student push has been that sustained or has offered a clear vision of why this is important,” said Gordon, who specializes in modern Japan. Without an existing program in Asian American studies, student advocates are trapped in a “vicious cycle,” said professor Wilt...
...with an alternative social activity. “There’s a momentum to go and drink and do the normal party scene,” said Christopher F. Altchek ’09, the Cabot House DAPA representative. “We’re excited to push people in another direction that is more fun, healthy, and safe.” Over 20 teams, composed of students from the Harvard Republican Club, the rugby team, the Kennedy School of Government, the Spee Club, and freshmen entry-ways, took part in the event’s climbing competitions...
...promote “intentional, accidental encounters between scientists of different disciplines” could improve the creative output of the college’s scientists. “Proximity effect is real,” said Naughton, who said he was one of the first faculty members to push for the new complex. For BC students, a major component of the plan is the college’s goal of providing on-campus housing to more than 600 students who would otherwise live in residential neighborhoods. BC junior Albert Meng said that he preferred living off-campus...
...central plank of the Sundquist-Sarafa platform was a push to reform the College's Administrative Board, the disciplinary body that has been criticized for its opacity and failure to include any students as decision-makers...
...best-known artist’s seventh solo album. Ghostface Killah, whose new album, “The Big Doe Rehab,” was slated to be released the same day as the Wu-Tang Clan’s latest disc apparently forced the Killa Bees to push their album back by one week so that it wouldn’t conflict with his initial sales. One can only hope that the best is yet to come, and that the Wu‘s much anticipated reunion will blow the “Big Doe?...