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...change represented a dramatic shift in a university administration that has not always been welcoming to the existence of a department focused on “black studies.” Throughout the late seventies and early eighties, the Afro-American Studies department had to fight not only to teach courses on African subjects but also simply to stay alive. For these early advocates, this name change was a long time coming...
This year, Shleifer has emerged on campus as a much-sought-after undergraduate instructor: he teamed up with Professor of Economics David I. Laibson ’88 to teach a course on psychology and economics, and also taught a small seminar on political economics as part of the economics department’s first ever junior tutorial program...
...Harvard decides to enter the world of television and begins broadcasting “Educational TV” on WGBH-TV Channel Two. Programming on the channel includes Professor I.A.’s show to teach painless French using cartoons and the Harvard debate team’s decisive victory over Yale...
...enfolding embrace of Asian culture makes it appealing to parents. Yet it can also be scary. I brought my kids to Asia because I wanted them to learn to trust people. At the same time, as my daughters grow up, I need to teach them to spot suspect behavior, especially that which is sexual in nature...
...Social workers say that, besides being vigilant, parents need to teach children how to react to sexual advances. That's harder than it may seem. When my elder daughter was 7, I told her that no man was allowed to touch any part of her body except her hands. "Not even Daddy?" she asked. I paused. No strange man, I amended; or woman for that matter. Then I thought of a lecherous relative and told her the rule applied to extended family and friends, too. My daughter looked at me quizzically, picked up her ball, and ran away. "If anyone...