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...VES Professor John R. Stilgoe...
...remaining three photographers diversified the exhibit's themes of loss and separation. Dara Young Cho '00, a VES concentrator, presented portraits of Vietnamese families who have immigrated to America. While all the images show the subjects "at home," the essence of separation in her work lies in the fact that these children, grandmothers, brothers and fathers are all thousands of miles from their homeland. Three siblings sit in front of stylized American wallpaper, but above their heads are paintings and family portraits in Vietnam. One wife sits with her husband on their couch digging her bare toes into the carpet...
...VES concentrator had his camcorder stolen from an unlocked cabinet in the basement of Sever Hall...
...BMOC's among us. But academic standards are even more complicated than fame. We may all be graded on the same scale and then sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
This argument is fallacious, because Harvard has a responsibility to offer diversity not only in the field of education, but also in terms of what students can do with that education. Although statistics, classics and VES departments are relatively smaller and less popular, the University, justifiably, felt it worthwhile to subsidize them for the sake of variety and diversity. The same argument ought to hold when presenting career options, especially since it is where they will end up spending most of their lives...