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...Expand academic, peer, and counseling support: Harvard’s Bureau of Study Counsel would expand its wide array of counseling, workshops, discussions groups, and courses to address the needs of first-generation and low-income college goers. It would train its tutors, group leaders, and peer counselors about the unique academic, socio-economic, and institutional challenges the underrepresented students may experience...

Author: By Chris C. Goodman and Rebecca J. Joseph | Title: An Open Letter to President Faust and the Harvard Community | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...known only as an evolutionary biology rock star, students applaud his calm temperament and commitment: four years ago, he took his freshmen seminar students on an all-expense-paid field study to Puerto Rico, where he was dubbed “Indiana Jones” after sporting a wide brimmed hat and rolling under beds to catch loose specimens.And though he has not taken a traditional career path—he once considered applying to law school—family members say they could scarcely imagine him doing anything else.Losos harbored an obsession with dinosaurs as a toddler...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of 1984: Jonathan B. Losos | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...committee’s recommendations for Harvard, which came to be known as the Brown Report, were released in 1955 and stipulated a wide-ranging series of reforms. Comparing Harvard to a number of peer institutions, the committee developed specific plans for the school, from the small-scale name change of the Department of Art History to the ground-breaking call for an increased number of theater courses and a design department. These changes would “give the experience of art its rightful place in liberal education,” wrote Pusey in the report. To accompany...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Room for Art | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...made a statement with its forward design, the Carpenter Center was also to provide the necessary space for students in the upcoming Visual Studies program. The building was filled with studios specifically designed for the working artist. The wide windows would provide a soft light for painting, shielded from direct sunlight by concrete breakers. In the exhibition space on the first floor, students could present their work and academics could teach by showing, Sekler described. “It’s the kind of studio space that any creative person can walk into and mess up the canvas...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Room for Art | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...that Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd are on indefinite medical leave and are only likely to return for the most important votes. Not to mention the fact that governing the Senate, as former majority leader Trent Lott once put it, is like herding cats. The Dems have such a wide umbrella that finding issues that unite both ends of the 60-vote spectrum can be tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Al Franken Make a Difference in the Senate? | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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