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...life, Lieskovsky tries actively to avoid being grouped or classified. She describes the Mayan social order, where people have certain roles. There are specific people, she explains, who are interstitial and who can negotiate between different identities and groups. “It’s a role that’s overlooked in our society,” she says. Though she says she has been “somewhat unsuccessful” at attaining that kind of status, Lieskovsky’s closest friends disagree. “I can’t think of anything that make...
...course, these benefits must not threaten the intimate intellectual environment that Harvard provides. The University is immensely enriched by having older graduate students with a diverse range of interests and professional experience living on campus—teaching sections, giving speeches and advising undergrads. To avoid harming this environment, Harvard must cautiously implement its new residency requirements for distance programs. The University should still require its distance learning students to reside on Harvard’s campus for at least a couple of months, if not longer. That way, these professional scholars could not only complete some of their degree...
...we’ve had, we know how to just sit down and do it,” says Stannard-Friel, who is co-chair of the council’s Campus Life Committee. “We’ve already seen the mistakes and know how to avoid them...
Though Lurie says a focus of his presidency would be to increase grants for student groups, he wants to avoid making extravagant promises about how much he will increase funding...
...change that when he meets the Turkish leader at the White House Tuesday. Erdogan's party has been portrayed as a moderate Islamist group - a characterization the party firmly rejects - and that together with traditional worries about the economic impact of a war and Turkey's concerns to avoid an outcome that creates any Kurdish national entity on its border has been viewed as potential sticking points...