Word: undergrad
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...concert commission has announced that they’ve locked down Wyclef Jean to perform at the Gordon Track and Field Center on Nov. 6, though some have grumbled about the commission’s failure to find out who undergrads really want to see. I asked some people whether Wyclef has them stoked; the majority of people said they’d never even heard of him, and several others told me they’d rather have a good indie rock band. Still, a few others said they’d be happy to re-live middle school...
Tribe wrote that his only previous experience teaching undergrads came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he served as Harvard’s debate coach. (Tribe won the National Debate Tournament as an undergrad math concentrator in 1961 and has been credited with pioneering the “flow” technique for tracking debate arguments...
Tribe wrote that his interest in teaching the new undergrad course “was sparked by the remarkable joy of being alive; of experiencing many kinds of love, including love for the woman to whom I’ve been married for a long time and for the children we have had together; of watching people I love die; of thinking and teaching about abortion, same-sex marriage, and the right to physician-assisted suicide; and of dreaming about pulling all of that together in an exploratory way with bright young people...
...film, “Capote,” chronicling the time Truman Capote spent researching and writing his novel “In Cold Blood.” Haven’t we all encountered at least one remarkably talented but socially stunted genius like Capote? And what undergrad worth his Literature and Arts A requirement is not interested in a deconstruction of the literary process?If that weren’t enough, Miller directs Philip Seymour Hoffman to a haunting portrayal of the complexities of the gadfly author that should satisfy the entertainment hunger in the audience as well.The...
...Harvard Crimson: One of the film’s villains is a Harvard undergrad named Van Holden. He seems to be a stereotype of the well-born Harvard elite. Did you intend him to represent the prototypical Harvard student...