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...have to decide whether to take myself seriously as a writer or not, and that’s a shift. It sort of happened by mistake. I didn’t take any creative courses at Harvard. I wasn’t part of the Advocate or the Signet. I’m not sure if I would even call myself a writer...
...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...
...college career on the crew team. This fact might seem odd for a woman of considerable power within the arts scene at Harvard. As president of the Cinematic, Whitaker helped Harvard’s only film-centric publication grow into a thriving organization. As president of the Signet, an exclusive arts and letters society and 138-year-old Harvard institution, Whitaker helped shape the tone of Harvard’s artistic community as a whole. But before all this, Whitaker left an unsatisfying freshman rowing experience to pursue her love of movies. Whitaker, who is also and inactive Arts editor...
...candidate in anthropology at NYU, she’s having her debut novel “Blood Kin” published in 14 countries and has received sky-high accolades from the likes of J.M. Coetzee.“I wasn’t involved in The Advocate, The Signet, or any of those,” Dovey says. “I always found them very pretentious. I avoided them like the plague.”A joint concentrator in Social Anthropology and Visual and Environmental Studies, Dovey instead focused her creative endeavors on documentary filmmaking. Her senior thesis...
...John H. Finley, IV ’92 in a ceremony officiated by Cambridge’s former Democratic state senator, Jarrett T. Barrios ’90. Finley, an ordained Episcopal priest, has strong ties to Harvard. A former resident of Adams House, he was secretary of the Signet Society. He was also active in the Phillips Brooks House Association, working at the Lutheran Church Homeless Shelter. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...