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...This year, the two committees governing the Core and Gen Ed will actively search for departmental courses that may fit into Core categories. After this year, that task will be handled solely by the Standing Committee on General Education. “The use of departmental courses is an area where there has to be constant vigilance and activity,” Lewis said. —Lois E. Beckett contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they were rowing in high school.“Some of the high school boats that come from smaller programs in less crew-centered areas only have a couple chances to race at the national big regattas—a couple of them every year,” Young said. “But for us, from the first two weeks into the season, you’d be racing your top competition for the rest...
...department or concentration. “There’s been a long and difficult process getting credit for theater,” said Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed the secondary field. Development in the area, which formally began with the creation of the committee in 1978, has been slower than at many other universities, Scanlan said. Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, and Stanford, for instance, offer programs in drama. “I think it’s a great step forward,” said Daniel...
...Weaver—the two founding members of the Split Britches Theatre Company—gathered Monday evening in the Fong Auditorium. The occasion was a roundtable discussion collectively sponsored by Harvard’s Program of Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Course Innovation Funds, and Boston-area queer theater group Theater Offensive. LEAVING A LEGACY Both the Five Lesbian Brothers and the Split Britches are known for irreverent, satirical, and emotionally raw performances in queer theater, and members of both groups have been honored with the OBIE award, Off-Broadway theater’s highest accolade...
...film’s biggest problem, however, lies in the foregone conclusion that Anwar is innocent. From the start, it is clear that the CIA has abducted the wrong man; consequently, Anwar’s explicitly unfair torture leaves no gray area to explore. If he had ties to terrorists in even an accidental way, Hood’s depiction of torture—and the question of its use—would raise interest and spark debate. As it is, the only statement the movie makes is that torturing innocent citizens is wrong: Hardly a revolutionary assertion...