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...enough of pandering to the system. They wanted to go create their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months hanging with the Hounslow homeboys, jotting down their thoughts and folkways. His tutor, the late Susan Benson, shrewdly asked him to consider the subculture in terms of gender, not race. "Asserting their ethnicity is actually a way of asserting their masculinity," says Malkani, noting that his subjects' disgust for "coconuts" actually masks a fear that they themselves might be considered soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree...
...Biology, and Sanskrit and Indian Studies.Some concentrations hope to approve secondary field proposals in meetings before the end of the academic year, while others will discuss secondary fields over the summer or in the early fall.Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) has already voted on a secondary field proposal, Head Tutor in Biology David Haig wrote in an e-mail. The secondary field, if approved, will consist of five OEB courses, with LifeSciences 1b counting as one of them, Haig wrote. Members of the class of 2007 will be able to declare secondary fields in OEB if they meet the requirements.A...
...scholar of European political thought, Harvard turned to Europe for Michael E. Rosen, who will be joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of government on July 1. Currently a fellow and tutor in Lincoln College at Oxford University, Rosen’s work bridges continental philosophy and political theory. He is also interested in analytical political theory and the history of political thought—boosting what is presently a small field in the department, according to Government Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “We are in need of senior scholars...
...served as a resident tutor in Winthrop from 1935 to 1937. A student in the House, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. ’38, “became one of my closest friends,” Galbraith later told C-SPAN. Joseph’s younger brother, John F. Kennedy ’40, would appoint Galbraith as ambassador to India...
Female undergraduates outnumber male undergraduates nationally, a trend that Harvard has been slow to mirror, according to a study published this month by three Harvard economists. Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, and Dunster House resident tutor Ilyana Kuziemko, who wrote the study, said women now make up 57 percent of the national undergraduate population, compared to 39 percent in 1960. The study, titled “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” was published online by the National Bureau of Economic Research...