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...Signet Society building on 46 Dunster St. seems like the perfect place to conduct an interview with Harvard’s cellist extraordinaire, Mimi Yu ’08. And at 5 p.m., when the Signet??s Friday Tea is in full swing with soft jazz music wafting down the hallway, it’s also the perfect time.But life at Harvard hasn’t always been so perfect for Yu, who counts an Office For the Arts fellowship for the current year among her many achievements. Yu found it difficult to meld her differing interests together...
...VES—Visual and Environmental Studies—also known as “art.”I can feel the crimson tides of fury rising as some of my readers begin sharpening their swords and paintbrushes, raising their easels as shields, crossing my name off the Signet??s punch book, and preparing to storm the Crimson offices or my room to defend their concentration to the death. But hear me out. It’s not that I think that VES offers no interesting or even no important classes. It’s simply that...
First of all, as I make it clear to anyone who asks me about the Signet, the Signet is not a social club. As its name clearly indicates, it is a Society of Arts and Letters. Second, the article implies that the broad diversity of the Signet??s members is a fruit of my valiant leadership and is characteristic of the past year. This was not at all “my work.” To my memory, the Signet has always gathered a very interesting and diverse group of people. Third, the implied current sexism...
...current member, who requested to remain anonymous, said that the Signet??s membership in recent history tended to represent a limited group, namely, the staff of the Advocate. “A few years ago it was essentially the Advocate part deux,” the member said...
Even outside of the Signet??s doors, Haddad has tried to branch out. As Huebner attests, Haddad tries to include the entire Harvard community in Signet-sponsored events like showings of films by VES students and coffee houses. Haddad has also made efforts to publicize the organization’s weekly Friday...