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...College’s next dean. The students questioned Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith about the dearth of minority members on the eight-member advisory committee that will help him search for the next Dean of the College. Nworah B. Ayogu ’10, the political action chair of the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and lead organizer of the meeting with Smith, said he had set up the meeting out of concern that an all-white advisory committee might not have the cultural breadth necessary to pick a dean representative of the entire student...
After three weeks off, the Harvard men’s tennis team bounced back into action this weekend at the 2007 Wilson/ITA Northeast Regional Men’s Tennis Championships, advancing two players into the quarterfinals, which will be played today. The tournament, which was held indoors at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium, started on Friday and will end with the championship matches tomorrow. Six members of the Crimson traveled to Princeton to compete in the 96-man singles main draw and two doubles pairs competed in the 42-pair doubles tournament. The top 32 seeds in singles received...
...parents. By allowing these teen and pre-teen students to receive these contraceptives—which can cause hormone levels to fluctuate and facilitate unprotected sexual contact—the school is in practice betraying the trust placed in it by the parents of its students. While this action would be permissible in a private school, the fact that the school where this program is being enacted is public makes it objectionable, because taxpayer dollars are being used to fund...
...boats rowing by on the Charles River. A chorus of voices will often inquire, “But what do they do?”—if only because rowing appears so physically strenuous and the coxswain is the enigmatic, seemingly idle person watching all of the action from the best seat in the house.“A lot of people have asked me, ‘Do you just sit in the boat and say “row” over and over again?’” says heavyweight men?...
Branagh’s adventurous direction is similarly frustrating at times. Ranging from a detached bird’s-eye-view of the action to surveillance camera footage, his style is inconsistent and choppy; viewers will find it difficult to focus. He doesn’t have much of an excuse—this is hardly Branagh’s first foray into directing. His credits include “Hamlet” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” both well-received by critics. But in “Sleuth,” his attempts...