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Many Harvard students speak of going abroad as an item they wish they’d gotten to on their list of things to do in college. The percentage who actually spend a full term abroad, though, barely pushes double digits. It may often have left me feeling like nothing beyond a more invasive tourist, but studying elsewhere taught me to take that tourist’s eye to my own surroundings in a way that no stack of books on deconstructing social norms can compel...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The More Things Change | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Commencement and the coming weeks are a fitting time to join with President Obama, to speak and act to end the ban on ROTC, and to affirm the message to all students and to our country that Harvard will always stand with our military in serving the nation...

Author: By John P. Wheeler | Title: Lifting the ROTC Ban | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...intolerant Islam, is a misnomer for the “integral veils” that are now being legally targeted in France, not to mention Belgium and Italy as well. Although pointed to by politicians as a dangerous new social problem, the practice is extremely rare. Even those who speak in favor of banning what the proposed law calls “public facial dissimulation” admit that the phenomenon is extremely marginal. Initial government intelligence reports named 367 documented cases. And, according to the Ministry of the Interior, no more than 2,000 women in France wear...

Author: By Judith Surkis | Title: The Tip of the Iceberg | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Each person I met also allowed me to build the trust I needed to be carried along to a safe harbor. Each conversation with one professor gave me the courage and trust to speak with another professor. No Harvard experience is complete without such connections...

Author: By Alina Voronov | Title: Feet Pointed Upward | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard Speaks! hosted a Speak-a-Thon in May in which about 15 students practiced various forms of oration, including a presentation on the history of kissing, recitations of original poetry, and monologue performances...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Will Speech Fade? | 5/24/2010 | See Source »

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