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...lauded the advantages of their school’s diversity.“We have people that are just coming into this country who are the poorest of the poor in the country, and the richest of the rich live down the street. We have some people whose parents teach at Harvard. We have some people whose parents clean at Harvard,” said Corina McCarthy-Fadel, a junior. “That’s the diversity of our school.”McCarthy-Fadel noted that the diversity of the school was an advantage that other cities...
...life of a fictional pimp became mainstream entertainment. In several other movies about pimps, their real-life exploits are serving a more dismaying purpose: as vocational instruction, according to detectives and prosecutors in several U.S. cities. The law-enforcement officials say that pimps are using widely available movies to teach minors how to be prostitutes. The documentaries - available online and in video stores - explain the vocabulary and rules of pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function...
...away” courses. There is evidently nothing foundational a history concentrator ought to know—or at least, that’s the message the department would be sending by killing History 10a. A lack of desire among professors to teach History 10a is an inappropriate reason to eliminate the course, if not a slightly alarming one. To operate under such a system—one in which courses are offered based on the fancies of the faculty—is to set a dangerous precedent. Inevitably, there will always be courses that are less interesting to teach...
...Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s op-ed (“The Revolution at Harvard,” Mar. 3) attempts to defend the pedagogy of her department against charges that basic areas of American history, such as the Revolutionary War, are neglected so that faculty members can teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what?...
...joint-concentrator in Mathematics and Chemistry, Eggleston hopes to teach math after college. But she envisions theater as an element of her future...