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...which hold stock in the company. While we agree with student activists that Harvard should drop more of this indirectly-held stock, we do not support the creation of a blanket, preemptive policy that would force Harvard to divest if certain criteria are met.The latest student and faculty petition drive, led by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), calls on Harvard to divest from both direct and indirect investments when “reasonable alternatives exist.” HDAG also wants Harvard to adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest...
Though alarming and uncomfortable, the controversy’s illumination of this culture of resignation presents an opportunity to examine the motivations that drive us and the satisfaction that we seek as we live and work at elite universities. Unfortunately, at institutions like Oxford and Harvard, that discussion is conducted only superficially, railroaded by students’ single-minded pursuit of prestige. It is time that we at Harvard, recipients of such extraordinary privilege, abandon that hollow pastime, put our complaints into perspective, and find satisfaction in the present...
...During the post-lecture discussion, Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature Homi K. Bhabha praised Burgin’s “resistance of the absurd drive to novelty and acceleration,” and the way his work “continually reflects on both media and mediation...
...museum has substantial infrastructure issues problematic for its art—including a lack of modern climate control and buckling walls in the Busch-Reisinger—and has long needed renovations.In 1998, renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano came to Cambridge to design a new art museum on Memorial Drive. Piano, who is also currently working on expansions of the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, won the Pritzer Prize, the architecture world’s highest honor, that same year.Piano’s two-building project was slated...
...final project in her creative writing course, Benjamin embraced the challenge. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” consists of a series of scenes loosely linked by the play’s characters. Instead of a plot, Benjamin relies on language to drive the piece. “I do like words and the manipulation of words, and I like how they sound when bumped up against each other in strange permutations,” Benjamin says. Though Benjamin is hesitant to label the play as absurdist, she acknowledges the fact that jarring...