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...biggest problem,” said one member of the program, “is no one feels comfortable talking, but everyone’s whispering...
...complained that their water pressure has decreased and that it now takes longer to wash. Many students, however, have said they cannot tell the difference. Leverett House Building Manager Paul J. Hegarty told The Crimson that students there have not complained, suggesting that the majority have not had a problem. We commend Harvard for its attention to saving water and in particular for finding a way to do so that has a low impact on most students’ lives. Energy efficiency has been a theme of the past few months from Allston to President Faust’s installation...
...There are some more nuances that WIB seems to have missed in its t-shirt design. The motto seems to implicitly suggest that women “make better” CEOs than men do, which ties into the larger problem of linking professional fitness to gender. Perhaps WIB members did not intend this nuance, but then, they should have thought a bit more deeply about their slogan when they sent this t-shirt design to print...
...last and worst problem with the WIB t-shirt motto is that it implicitly associates female professionals with high heels, and this constitutes quite a sexualized image. This association devalues the other aspects of female professionalism, such as brainpower, organizational abilities, and corporate prowess. Successful women don’t all wear kitten heels, after all—Harvard’s own Drew Faust appears to be quite a fan of flats...
Last week's murder of South African reggae star Lucky Dube, 43, in a failed carjacking should finally bury the misconception that the country's crime problem is a black-on-white issue. Dube, last Friday, was shot while dropping off his two teenage children at his brother's house in Rossettenville, near downtown Johannesburg. The children survived unharmed...