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...campus, he’s active in the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, co-president of the Harvard College Defense Against Genocide, and he directed the Soldier Testimony Project. Bakker says he discovered his interest in human rights during high school while participating in extemporaneous speech contests, of which he was the Michigan state champion three times. Every round, Bakker would have to choose one of three topics, and he found himself gravitating towards human rights issues. “When the Darfur question came up I would always pick that,” he says...
...remember coming to Harvard and thinking about getting involved in speech and debate,” says Bakker, but he ultimately chose a different direction...
...This is performance, and these are good skills to know,” he says, referring to competitive speech. “But if you’re really concerned about the things you read in the news, you have to stand up and do something...
...McLeod ’10, who was censured by the Council last week for her involvement in the election scandal, reflected positively on her tenure as Vice President in her speech. She emphasized her continuous “commitment to making the Undergraduate Council more relevant to all aspects of student life,” and her prominent role in the creation of the UC TKTS initiative, which lotteries free event tickets to students...
Donning a tight pink shirt, a graduate student squirms through an application interview for her post-doctorate program of choice. Her hands anxiously fidget with her pen and her speech is littered with “umm?...