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...that they were going to foul right away,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “But I’m not so sure they were going to foul right away.”What followed would have been completely unbelievable if not viewed in the context of what had just occurred in the last minute.Harvard was successful in inbounding the ball to its free throw specialist Goffredo. The junior guard was immediately trapped by two Tigers players, who aggressively went after the ball, possibly fouling Goffredo in the process. Instead of turning to the official...
...this is exactly how 19th-century racist propaganda depicted the immigrants from Asia who comprised the “yellow peril.” Bronshtein neglects to mention these aspects of the T-shirt images. He also fails to place the image of the pigtailed Chinaman in a historical context. It is not only because the T-shirt image is stereotypical that it is offensive to some people, but also because it is reminiscent of racist propaganda that caused substantial harm to Asian-Americans who lived during a less enlightened period in the past. In the absence of an illustration...
...Constitutional Rights challenging the legality of the program. BACK IN CAMBRIDGE But at Harvard in 1975, Chertoff’s main concern was to defend individual rights from Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy. Chertoff begins his thesis by laying out a historical perspective to place Bentham in context before going into an extended discussion about Bentham’s theories of ethics and metaphysics, punching holes in what he saw as Bentham’s lack of a foundation for absolute rights—“since [he] has no absolute concept of right...
...their contact information.With the advent of blogging and continuously updated online news media, access to information is almost unparalleled. Even information that seems semi-private, such as profiles on Facebook—which are only accessible by certain portions of the public—can be taken out of context, re-posted, and let loose in the vastness of cyberspace. “In general, students forget that information is largely visible depending on how you protect it,” says Erin Nettifee, Harvard’s supervisor of residential computing.Why should we care?“I think...
...among other schools and plans to form a committee on housing policies. “A committee comprised of House masters, staff, and students will be convened in late spring to discuss Harvard’s policy in light of the needs of our student population and in the context of what our peer institutions are doing related to gender-neutral housing,” she writes in an e-mail to FM. Passing the TimeFew signs in the Mather suite hint at a male presence. The most obvious indication of Magnuson is, funnily enough, in the bathroom?...