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Each April, Dean Fitzsimmons announces a freshman class more ethnically varied than any previous one. Ethnic diversity has become a justifiable, if crudely expressed, obsession for Harvard and its peers. A separate, if related, diversity is that of nationality??yet this seems to be a more secondary concern. Less than one in nine Harvard College students comes to us from abroad...
While most of us thought that the purpose of the Nobel Prize was to recognize exceptional individuals—regardless of nationality??apparently, Engdahl has been keeping score. And although he toned down his statement in light of sharp criticism from Americans and insisted that the prize “is not a contest between nations but an award to individual authors,” his declaration of Europe’s literary hegemony reveals a subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts...
...patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market’s tendency to label writers based on their nationality??bogs down literary text and its meaning. Identifying labels also discriminate against a text, she added. Alexander M. Groce, a first year graduate student in the department of Slavic Studies, said he found the talk engaging. “I thought it was very interesting, especially when...
...project is its heavy reliance on student input. When Loker was first built, administrators consulted with students. Now they’re actually working with them. Focus groups composed of a cross-section of students based on every imaginable variable—race, class, gender, extracurriculars, financial aid, nationality??have met to discuss what the pub should look like. And that’s just the first step. Starting today, students can go to www.harvardcollegepubnights.com and fill out a survey on their opinions regarding the Pub. Student members already sit on the Pub Commission, the group in charge...
This year, May L. Lugemwa ’04, took the title of Best Undergraduate Documentary for her moving film, “Former Nationality??—an exploration of the tenuous relationship she and her mother have with Uganda, their former homeland, set during their first trip back after emigrating more than a decade earlier...