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...have little personal interest in football, and I suspect the same holds for many others; the main thrill comes simply from the scale and circumstance of it all. Many things have changed in the years since the first Game in 1875; the increased mix of nationalities, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented in classrooms and stadium stands speaks to the prodigious accomplishments on behalf of diversity over the last century...
...Nigerian village to Protestant parents. Though he came of age in a Christian household, Achebe was surrounded by manifestations of traditional Nigerian religions and practices. Achebe’s first name at birth was “Albert,” which he dropped when he developed an academic interest in Nigerian culture during college.The ability of “Things Fall Apart” to straddle two artistic traditions has led to the book’s characterization as the first “modern” African novel, though Achebe eschews the title. “Categorizations...
Because of the wide scope of new media and the lack of a substantial design program, Harvard has been unable to successfully consolidate new media topics into a field of academic interest. Still, despite the absence of a concrete means of studying it, students have found ways to incorporate new media into both their academic and extra-curricular pursuits...
Despite this demonstrated interest in the subject matter, Harvard students can face organizational challenges to pursuing new media academically. J. D. Connor ’92, the concentration advisor for the VES Department, explains that often when students are interested in multimedia design, “they’ve gone to MIT, which has a really robust media studies program,” whereas “Harvard tends not to have a lot of that.” Though the VES concentration’s film/video track allows students to study a variety of new media concepts such...
...While interest in new media has begun to creep into the lives of Harvard students through independent study or via student publications, some faculty members at the college are less enthusiastic about digital art and see limited potential for it in academic study. “Web art, by definition, is ephemeral,” says VES professor John R. Stilgoe. “It is hard to save, even when you try to save it. I fear it’s like a Rothko painting. His paint deteriorated, and I fear that a lot of web art will deteriorate...