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With no shortage of ad-hoc advocacy on the Harvard campus, concerned students have organized a new group to give students real-world experience in defending human rights. The Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights group is not yet recognized by the university but already boasts a membership of fifty undergraduates who wanted to respond to frustrations over an absence of “meaningful” human rights work at Harvard, according to co-founders Tamar Ayrikyan ’07 and Caitlan L. McLoon ’07. Modeled after the Harvard Law School (HLS) Student Advocates...
What will differentiate this line, according to Lagerfeld, is its real-world attitude. "It's much tougher than Chanel and more about the way people dress in everyday life," he says...
...reputation as an auto mechanic to play practical jokes on the unsuspecting. "I'd tell 'em to go get a flux capacitor," he says, laughing that his Guard buddies didn't catch the Back to the Future reference. His favorite game remains Warhammer, a tabletop battlefield game in which real-world strategies are played out with miniature soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like its Imperial Guard ("the National Guard of the future," he says) with the game's Space Orks. "It's a way of acting like a kid and getting away with it," he admits...
...though, the curriculum is not dry in the least. This is because the architects and professors of the course have taken on an even greater task than inseminating a lecture hall full of students with a basic knowledge of biochemical sciences. By basing the understanding of scientific concepts in real-world issues, specifically HIV and AIDS, students of the course cannot close their eyes to neither the scientific nor humanitarian side of the public health crisis that faces our world today.AIDS is the problem that everyone knows exists but no one knows how to solve. Perhaps this is because AIDS...
...home moms are actually now remarkably disadvantaged in terms of social capital. We're used to thinking everything is going to get more and more virtual until we're these big floaty video heads, but actually there is a return of the real, as we figure out how to use this stuff to have real-world encounters...