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...former Currier House business tutor, Christopher C. Kim ’99, died suddenly on February 11, at the age of 32. Kim was a passionate advocate for education, which eventually led him to the administration of a five-year-old Washington, D.C. public charter school. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Citizenship and service, however, are not coextensive. Service is an activity fraught with asymmetrical power relationships. As Harvard students, we can go paint community centers and tutor poor students and lobby for worker’s rights because we have the luxury of time and stability and because we are prodded along by the tickling guilt of our own comfort. This is not to undercut the work of the many students who participate in service, almost all with genuinely good motivations. Rather, it is to point out that we serve because we can, and we can because...
...would be nice to have a House Master who represents who I am.”The concerns were brought to a point in an online petition started last week by Blake L. Johnson ’09 to encourage the hiring of a more diverse tutor staff.But after receiving news of the selection of the Christakis couple, both of whom are Caucasian, Johnson said he was “personally pleased as a sociology concentrator” to hear of the appointment. Biggers, who listed House Master diversity as one of her key campaign planks in an unsuccessful...
Becoming a House tutor this year just might be more competitive than getting into Harvard College itself.Nearly 300 applicants are vying for six resident tutor openings in Mather House this year, a significant increase over previous years, according to Mather business tutor Joseph S. Ronayne ’92.Other Houses have seen similar jumps, according to tutors and administrators, though they stressed the variable nature of application numbers and said they did not have concrete data from past application pools.The spike in this year’s candidates—particularly graduate students—may reflect the position?...
...more likely to study Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson than Beethoven and Mozart. In fact, Backstreet Boys is on the syllabus too.“How Songs Work” is a non-credit seminar led for the first time this Spring by Adams House resident songwriter and tutor, Matthew J. Coriel ’05. The class meets every other Monday in the Coolidge Room of Adams House. Over the course of six seminars, Coriel hopes to give students the tools necessary to appreciate and understand popular music in a more analytical and nuanced...