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...event included a rally with speeches by student leaders, members of the Cambridge City Council, and Institute of Politics Visiting Fellow and former Seattle Mayor Greg J. Nickels, who led the coalition encouraging mayors to sign on to the goals of the Kyoto Protocol...
SJSF founder Craig S. Altemose, a student at the Kennedy School and the Law School, said before the event that the Cambridge Police were “just here to protect us.” In fact, the Cambridge Police seemed supportive of the group’s peaceful protest...
...establishment of ethnic studies as a secondary field introduces a new way of thinking. It serves as a counterweight to the kind of academic chauvinism that puts forth the risky proposition that some degrees are more important than others. An avid student of the Eurocentric, so-called classical model of Western education would be wildly ill-equipped to understand the broad, socio-cultural forces that shape current events in the national and international spheres. Purposely ignoring the experiences of non-Western peoples would be like looking at the world with one eye closed—with a massive blind spot...
...general, expanding the curriculum in response to student demand is a positive thing. Some of the more recent concentration fields, such as neurobiology and human evolutionary biology, were reactions to calls for new ways to organize the study of biological sciences. Similarly, the ethnic studies secondary field program likely resulted at least in part from the advocacy of students who contended that it would fill a gap in the current academic program at Harvard. These changes and additions represent admirable efforts to make academic study more comprehensive and reflective of student interest...
...soon as the Masters announced their departures, Hammonds began the House Master search by canvassing faculty members potentially interested in the opportunity, Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson said in February. Each House subsequently convened advisory groups—comprised of tutors, students, and staff—that met with House Master candidates. These committees provided nput on interested faculty members via questionnaires, but Hammonds ultimately made the final decisions, Nelson added...