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...description of a new course, Sociology 43: “Social Interaction,” students will learn about the “sociology of everyday life,” and turn in a journal containing observations about their social lives for a grade. The course is taught by Timothy Nelson, a lecturer in the sociology department, whose course Web site boasts that “the University’s resident halls, classrooms, finals [sic] clubs, and the cities of Cambridge and Boston will serve as our laboratory.” Though final clubs and their supposed elitist nature...
Moreover, regardless of the long-term budget concerns, students now still need to be taught. Harvard’s course offerings already fall short in many areas, and the hiring slowdown means departments across the College must wait further to fill their teaching gaps. The Economics Department is now searching for only one junior faculty member instead of two, the Classics Department cannot fill an intellectual vacancy in Greek history, and the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department will not be hiring a pre-modern Japanese history professor...
...died in 2006. This year’s recipient was Tineisha A. Lozanne, a junior at New Mission High School in Roxbury. Lozanne, who excels both academically and athletically, has her sights set on Harvard, due to dedicated mentorship from Harvard students. “My mentor has taught me so much about how to prioritize, stay on track, and prepare for college,” Lozanne said. —Staff writer Courtney P. Yadoo can be reached at cyadoo@fas.harvard.edu...
...says, “is that students will have curricular experiences that broaden their horizons in some way.” Though the VES department offers many studio-based courses, non-concentrators often find it difficult to get accepted into them. Thus, the opportunity for freshmen to take classes taught by VES faculty is another reason Naddaff feels it is important to offer these first-year seminars. “It is a way for students who are not concentrating in VES to have the experience of a studio course they might not otherwise get,” Naddaff says...
...Feldstein doesn't blame Obama or Larry Summers, the President's economy czar, whom Feldstein taught at Harvard and whom he has been advising in private in recent months. "The White House has been on the job for a few weeks," Feldstein says. "So if you said to them, 'Please design a program for improving the water supply of the United States,' Larry Summers is a brilliant guy, but he probably doesn't know a lot about water supply. And there's a committee in Congress that's been working on this for years...