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...Pierre, who volunteers to supervise after-school detention for the high-schoolers (the real Dulaine taught grammar-school kids), has a steely will to match theirs. He will teach them the seven classic ballroom dances: waltz, Viennese waltz, fox trot, swing, tango, rumba and meringay. And if they dedicate themselves to it, they can compete in the city-wide dance-off at the end of the term. One kids sneers: "Music is corny. There's no feeling." To prove he's wrong, Pierre bends and blends. When someone proposes to mix the standards repertoire with a hip-hop beat, Pierre...
...impassioned, standing-room-only crowds that filled University Hall for nearly a year of attacking Summers, only reaffirms the perception of Harvard faculty members’ apathy toward undergraduate education. Pictured in a recent New York Times art editorial as “spoiled faculty members who refuse to teach,” FAS does itself no service by failing to attend its own crucial meetings...
...Increasing the number of courses that teach public speaking, debate, and oral argument...
...study popular and pragmatic areas—such as economics—while still choosing to declare a primary concentration in other, less popular disciplines. But Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 said that while her department is “glad to teach any student who wants to learn economics,” she and her colleagues were worried that a quick increase in the number of students taking economics could swamp the department’s resources. “At this point, I want to say we would hesitate...
...Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) as part of the 2006 National Student Labor Week of Action. The hour-long protest was the first in SLAM’s semester-long “Right To Organize” campaign. In March, the group held a teach-in to inform students about alleged human rights abuses in Colombia and India by Coke. SLAM leader Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 said SLAM was waiting to protest until the administration responded to a letter SLAM sent them asking for a meeting to discuss the University?...