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University President Drew G. Faust returned to the classroom Friday morning, but to lecture parents rather than students.Faust addressed an over-capacity crowd of more than 150 junior parents on issues ranging from the College’s new financial aid initiative to academic advising.Though most of the questions centered on the core initiatives of Faust’s nascent presidency, one query channeled frustration expressed by many undergraduates of late.“I have heard from my son and his friends that the food quality is going down,” one parent asked to laughter and scattered...
...show is an over-sized photograph of a vagina, complete with pubic hair and a manifesto. The work, entitled “The Vag Club,” connects final clubs to the vulva and is just one of the many works that illuminates how art can address social issues at Harvard. Every semester the Women’s Center stages an exhibition organized around a certain topic. The subject this spring—the relationship between Harvard and body issues—stems from last fall’s “Autobiography” theme. Both the exhibition...
...poetry into her native language. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, the book is a window into Hartwig’s interpretation of the real essence of life. Unconstrained by the expectations of social constructs and unencumbered by the tendency to divide everything into black and white, her poems address universal themes in the context of a specific sentiment, image, or idea. Hartwig uses her poems to expose life in all its strange incongruities, rendering it naked and vulnerable to our judgment.At first glance, Hartwig’s work is unremarkable. The titles of her pieces, which are usually drawn...
...that the coalition government has pooled all of Kenya's rotten political eggs into one noxious basket, and is therefore bound to fail. On the other hand, Kenya stared into the abyss and was finally pulled back. That presents a chance to refashion the Kenyan state itself and to address the systemic issues - inequality, land rights, corruption and the constitution - that gave rise to the crisis in the first place...
...Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy - the flawed national policy of his day. In a similar spirit, we offer a small idea that is, perhaps, no small idea. It will not solve the drug problem, nor will it heal all civic wounds. It does not yet address questions of how the resources spent warring with our poor over drug use might be better spent on treatment or education or job training, or anything else that might begin to restore those places in America where the only economic engine remaining is the illegal drug economy. It doesn...