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When Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 became the first female reporter sent to the Albany bureau by The New York Times, she was “quite shocked” to find that women could not attend the main social event on the calendar—a show in which correspondents from predominantly male newspapers dressed in drag and performed parodies about state politics.“I protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class...
...Saris notes that the Board’s main function is to exercise visitation of Harvard’s schools and departments, evaluating the programs and recommending changes...
...Escalating housing prices? “Gentrification is the main problem, so we need a public school system that middle class residents want to send their kids to.” Immigration? “Education is essential for upward mobility—people come here from all over, there are tons of Somalis and Ethiopians, for example, so we need a school system that ensures a basic level of literacy.” Race relations? “Direct conversation about race is so difficult. We have to have shared experiences, and this begins in the schools...
...Kelley, the main problem with the Cambridge Public Schools is that the system does not have the faith of the middle class. He points out that of the three white city councillors with school-age children—Brian P. Murphy ’86 and Michael A. Sullivan are the other two—he is the only one whose children attend the Cambridge Public Schools...
...statement came in the wake of the firing of the former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who wrote in a letter to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby that past February that “it has never been thought that the main goal of Harvard College should be to produce the next generation of university professors or that our curriculum and pedagogy should be designed in service of that end.” The main goal of Harvard College aside, I’ve found during my time here at Harvard that...