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Since Harvard students are so well trained to question their established modes of thinking, here’s something to chew on. Although we may spend more hours per day studying at Lamont than sleeping, books can’t teach us everything. Reading, writing, and struggling through problem sets help us to think critically, but they’re not enough—students need more than just texts to analyze or numbers to crunch...
...Undeterred, a group of students and rogue professors held a "Pirates Screening Teach-In" on Monday night, drawing some 200 attendees. Before a 30-min. excerpt - which included two threesomes and copious shots of corset-clad blondes - students, professors, lawyers and ACLU representatives stood up to defend porn on principle. English professor Martha Nell Smith, who noted that literature from Shakespeare to Dickinson includes pornographic elements, said it's a student's choice whether to study erotica and "our job together to contextualize it." (Read about porn and the iPhone...
...Quapril” for the QSA, a month in which the organization raises awareness about issues affecting gay, lesbian and transgender people. During the event, drag king Haywood Wakefield and drag queen Fena Barbitall gave a presentation about their lives and then split the attendees into two groups to teach them how to dress in drag. Barbitall took the men into a separate room and spoke about being a drag queen performer, saying that she hoped that students would gain insight into drag culture. Meanwhile, Wakefield spoke about the process of dressing as a drag king, discussing issues from...
...Damrosch assumes control, he says he hopes to expose Harvard students to world literature from the beginning of their undergraduate education, through courses such as Literature 10 and 11, the two-semester introduction to world literature he taught this year, and will continue to teach...
...being in a state of existence that was somewhere in between, not fully in the world and not fully out of it ... I wanted her to know how lucky she is to be born at a time when a vast spiritual vocabulary is open to her. I wanted to teach her that faith is strange and beautiful and sometimes scary...