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...After nine days of asceticism that saw two participants hospitalized and no movement by the University on the protesters’ main demand—that Harvard get involved in negotiations with the guards’ contractor—the preparation almost seemed worth it. Despite the health problems and the absence of a full victory, the strike became a defining action in a year that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 says was characterized by “a greater air of student activism on campus in general...
...review of life in Cabot House. “I think life outside the classroom is extremely important,” Smith said. Smith has paid attention to the administrative life of the Faculty as well, suggesting yesterday that the divisional deans—who oversee the main areas of study—should be given more authority. “We should be allowing the divisional deans to have the power that they need to implement within their areas what’s best for those individual areas,” he said.DINING WITH DREWLike Knowles?...
...Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain,” there’s a big line about halfway through in which the main character tries to decide “to be content with something less grandiose than self-banishment.” In so doing he is overwhelmed by the smallness of that which he’s agreeing to, and he realizes how hard it will be “to live with one’s failure in a modest fashion.” How truly shabby it will be to lead...
...best seasons ever. “We are really satisfied with the season we had,” said captain second baseman Julia Kidder. “We won the Ivy League, which was our goal since September.” Kidder was one of the main reasons for the team’s success. Batting either first or second for most of the season, the senior finished third on the team and 11th in the league with a .341 average and was named to the All-Ivy second team. Her double-play partner, senior shortstop Lauren Brown, finished 10th...
...idea that tenured women faculty should be excluded from the main dining room is now just laughable,” says Graham, who had previously served as vice-president of Radcliffe College and dean of the Radcliffe Institute from 1974 to 1977. “But within my professional lifetime that’s been the case and symbolically that has been a huge change...