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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, a sit-in at the Law School Dean's office by the Black Law Students' Association brought a quick response. University officials taught the students how to use the office coffee maker and arranged meetings between them and administrators--while quietly posting guards around other University buildings. When the sit-in ended, the law students received only general promises that their concerns would be addressed in accordance with existing policies...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Activism Turns To Social Issues | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...seeds of Bullet LaVolta were planted four years ago when Tarver met Bill Whelan '88 in Spanish class and on the basketball court. "I was better at Spanish, he was better at basketball," Tarver recalls. The two talked about forming a band and Tarver taught his friend to play bass guitar. At the end of their sophomore year, both joined WHRB's rock department, described by one somewhat disenchanted member as "a collection of misfits and degenerates who share an almost psychotic knowledge of obscure music." There, Tarver says, he "learned about music from the point of view...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: And His Band Plays On | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...support for the Cambridge school system includes the Graduate School of Education's Contant Fellowship program, where public school teachers and administrators are given the chance to work toward advanced degrees at the school. Other efforts range from a Principals' Center to a reading center and writing courses taught by the Expository Writing Department...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Employer, Landlord and Taxpayer | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...disappointment with the GovernmentDepartment taught me how hard it will be to dowhat I want to do," she says. "My thesis was myfirst step toward dealing with the Arab-IsraeliE-7CrimsonDavid...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: From Under The Veil... | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...University would deny that the teaching fellows are vital to Harvard's educational system. It is graduate students who make it possible for 800-plus students to enroll in courses like Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution." And Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics," could not be taught almost entirely in small groups without the course's more than 30 graduate student section leaders. Although teaching can take up a huge chunk of their time, graduate students take on courses because they enjoy interacting with undergraduates--and they need the money...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Learning How to Teach? | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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