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...Megawati Sukarnoputri's husband, was photographed shaking his considerable booty behind Inul after a TV performance. Even the television stations profiting from her appearances paid unintentional homage to Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show by cutting away from Inul's hips when gyrations commenced. Many middle-class and upper-class Indonesians read their papers and shook their heads at the controversy?then told their drivers to pick up a copy of Inul...
...efforts to diversify higher education and particularly elite institutions like Harvard. For centuries, Harvard served to educate exclusively a white male upper class. Women and people of color are still a small minority among tenured faculty, and the curriculum still frequently comes under attack for offering a Eurocentric, masculine, upper-class perspective. The Harvard Corporation itself has long been a bastion of traditional corporate homogeneity; in its history it has had only two women and one person of color among its members...
...These upper-class students will not be paid, which makes sense; though their advice is valuable, the time commitment of explaining one’s personal experience to a first-year is negligible. As for choosing the advisors, departments’ head tutors should make sure to recruit students who have different areas of interest, and who also have a wide range of experienes in the department. If all the upper-class students present sugar-coated views of their departments rather than honest appraisals, the program will do little to help first-years make informed choices...
...that end, all undergraduates who work formally with first-years—like prefects—should not be forced to restrict themselves to providing “information,” as opposed to actual advice. The College and the departments must take this leash off of upper-class students. The rule is largely meaningless, but its mere existence might inhibit upper-class students from expressing their opinions candidly. Additionally, since first-years can conceivably compare the advice of several undergraduates with different interests, a compilation of honest advice will better help first-years than any guarded...
With any luck, success under this new student-advising program will improve first-year academic decisions and motivate each department to improve its own advising program. The College must pursue both first-year and upper-class advising vigorously; high quality advising can and should be a permanent component of every student’s academic career...