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Celebration of Black Women Chair Jonathan Figueroa ’10 said that the event seeks to honor “extraordinary, strong, intelligent black women,” such as Simmons, “who’ve done significant work in the community...
...addition to Simmons, four graduating Harvard seniors—Omobolaji O. Ogunsola ’10, Chioma M. Achebe ’10, Saron A. Tesfalul ’10, and Jacqueline C. Hairston ’10—were also awarded a Senior Leadership Award at this event...
...campus venues in order to keep serving hard alcohol. While this year Dunmire said House administrators told him liquor will still be at Fête, he said in the future Eliot may choose to stick to beer, wine, and champagne in order to continue hosting the event in the House...
...then, make commentary optional? At this point, to avoid grating commentary we flip between channels broadcasting the same event, but all this offers is our pick of interpretation, when the real interpreters should be ourselves. Why shouldn’t we be able to choose if we want to hear commentary at all? What if announcers only spoke during halftime and time-outs, as one friend would realistically turn to another only during a lull in the action? We could lose ourselves in the experience of the game much more easily without constant prattle, whether it’s that...
...degrees of separation between pure enjoyment and irony. Anyone who feels even a modicum of outrage should make a personal commitment to lengthen our cultural attention span and let powerful performances speak for themselves. For there is an important difference between choosing how you want to experience an event and preventing yourself from experiencing it at all. Every now and then, a willing suspension of disbelief is, like chicken soup, good for the soul...