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...year struggle with the dramatic arts. Perhaps most significantly, students can now gain academic recognition for dramatic arts, through a new Secondary Field. As Homi K. Bhabha, professor, director of the Humanities Center, and member of President Drew G. Faust’s newly-inaugurated “task force on the arts,” says of drama at Harvard: “We are late to the plate.” LOSING TO YALEFrom those same Puritan beliefs that shaped John Harvard—compelling him to leave for the New World and donate his fortune...
...that Harvard is letting in the wrong people, or that “undergraduate life at the College today is not giving due encouragement to civic courage and political engagement,” as our ornery alumni suggest. Though they’ve asked Faust to charter a task force with a name so long and grammatically complex that it cannot possibly be anything but a good idea, no amount of administrative prodding will wake us up to the fact that, as they claim, “the US is engaged in an occupation abroad...while at the same time...
...invited the entire University. In September, she glad-handed with undergraduates and pretended to enjoy herself at Camp Harvard. And last month, Faust gave us all a taste of that warm, fuzzy feeling that bludgeons ’67’s desired discontent, when she appointed a Task Force on the Arts to talk about all sorts of mushy-gushy feel-good nonsense, like creativity and performance and happiness...
...make that brash baker’s dozen happier than if we were all as pissed off as they are. The United States is occupying Iraq! Civilians are being killed! Iran is next! The NSA is listening! Our rights are being jeopardized! And you’re appointing a Task Force on the Arts...
...hope that University President Drew G. Faust—to whom the plan will go next—will not hesitate in voicing her support for it. The plan, which commits Harvard to reducing its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, is being proposed by a task force made up of students, faculty, and administrators. Admittedly, we have some reservations about the potential costs and other details for this plan, especially in the context of Harvard’s current expansionary tendencies. Nonetheless, the importance, both in symbol and in practice, of this plan should be under...