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...Studies drew a full house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant.” “He did an excellent job of contextualizing the problem within a broader context,” Bhabha said. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, is primarily considered a playwright, though his novels and poetry collections have also garnered critical acclaim. Soyinka, originally from western Nigeria, is also known for his political activism, including outspoken criticism of dictatorships...
...Depression is as much a thinking problem as it is a mood problem,” a psychiatry professor told students at a discussion last night intended to reduce stigma about mental illness. Paul J. Barreira, director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling for University Health Services, met with students in the Lowell House Junior Common Room yesterday for an information session called “Mental Illness 101.” The discussion dealt with general definitions of mental illnesses, but did not extensively address their prevalence in a college setting or delineate the mental health resources currently available...
...April 12, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson’s weekly magazine, ran a cover story about a group of undergraduate student organizations that were facing financial hardship because of the somewhat unwieldy way Harvard doles out student activity funds. Problem was, at least one of those groups, the quarterly magazine Diversity and Distinction, wasn’t currently facing financial hardship. They hadn’t been for as long as anyone currently in the College has been here. Yet, except for one point where the article says the magazine went into greater debt with each issue it published...
...women’s athletics, and it’s bad for free expression. Someone—however contemptible—lost his job because people would rather shut him up by firing him than by confronting what he said. But such suppression does little to address the underlying problem. Next time, that person might not be so easy to despise. If, 35 years after the enactment of Title IX, the validity of women’s athletics is still a question for some, and women athletes are still derided for their athleticism—then we?...
...walls the American military planned to erect in Baghdad seemed like a simple solution to a deadly problem: Sunni and Shi'ite enclaves would be physically separated, preventing each side's fighters from attacking the other's civilians. But simple solutions tend to fall apart when confronted with Iraq's complicated reality...