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...autumn of 1957 and the Harvard experience of today are two historical moments—separated by half a century??that share an unfortunate thematic link. Both have a progressive face masking a regressive mindset that has shifted in the past five decades but has not disappeared. Although the academic left scored a victory in the latter half of the 20th century by making “ethnic” and “regional” studies mainstream, the creation of venues of study for non-Western disciplines or topics is only half the battle. While...
...also counting for Culture and Belief, will be adapted from Folklore and Mythology 100. Humanities 27, taught by English professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, will become English 127: “A Silk Road Course: Travel and Transformation on the High Seas: An Imaginary Journey in the early 17th Century?? and count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement this fall. The acting chair of the comparative literature department also saw two of her courses welcomed into the new curriculum. Susan R. Suleiman’s “French 132b. 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode?...
...persons by 2050. If the level of affluence and food security is to be maintained, then a new strategy to supply the world’s population with low-cost high-quality protein needs to be proposed.While in vitro meat production may very well be the hope of this century??s Green Revolution, it should not be construed as a solution to the ethical question of whether or not people should raise and slaughter animals. Even though PETA’s prize is presented for the wrong reasons, it will still nonetheless be a boost to a field...
...from drifting towards populism. In reality, rural America has been the site of some of the nation’s most radical political movements. Eugene Debs, the prominent socialist of the turn of the century, was a proud resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century??s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor Texan. Rural Americans, just like their urban counterparts, are a complex group, full of competing opinions on politics, culture, and religion, yet we continue to treat them as one-dimensional pawns in the bloody arena of political point...
...obviously complicated and not merely defined by antagonism or exclusion, but the list of recent slaps to students by administrators is a long one. Even Sundquist’s position—probably the most important sign that substantive change could come to the Ad Board in a century??was not a simple given; Sundquist and the Undergraduate Council fought for months to have a student seated alongside the three faculty members that interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam appointed this winter...