Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afro-American studies department began attracting national attention in 1991, when Henry Louis "Skip" Gates came to Harvard as W.E.B. DuBois professor of the humanities and successfully hired several prominent scholars in the field...
...asking Harvard students to ignore their theses in favor of protests or to skip lectures to help out those less fortunate than themselves. Instead we are asking that students keep an eye on the big picture our educational institution is embedded in, ask what this education is for and about after all, and participate in the broader community in any way possible. Or, at the very least, that they stop trying to polish the walls of the ivory tower and pretend we can be both uber-privileged and righteous...
...truth and reconciliation hearings in South Africa constitute a shining example of the power of truth, even if dealing with the most awful of wounds, when spoken plainly, to open the door to healing. There are many folks who share the type of yearning expressed so eloquently by Skip Gates: "I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time--but to do so in order to come out the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color...
Prospective Harvard applicants might have to skip their tour of Radcliffe Yard if the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid is forced to relocate from its current location in Byerly Hall. Harvard's 25-year lease of the building from Radcliffe expires this summer, and negotiations for renewal seem strained. Radcliffe is prepared to renew the lease for just five years (at a rent significantly higher than the operating expenses currently paid by Harvard), while the Admissions and Financial Office is looking for a long-term deal...
However, Shih said he finds the newrestrictions to be "annoying" rather than helpful."If a student is really bored in a class, theywould be discouraged," he said.CrimsonUche A. BlackstockHITTING THE BOOKS: The PhysicsDepartment is making it harder for concentratorsto skip required classes or to take them in thesame semester...