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Assistant Professor of Government Andrea Campbell ’88 demonstrates the power of music to bring people together. When sitting in the clarinet section of the Harvard Wind Ensemble as an undergraduate, Professor Campbell had no idea that she would sit next to her future husband Alan Feinstein ’86. Today, Professor Campbell is the faculty advisor for the Harvard Pops Orchestra and her husband is the group’s conductor. Having played both the clarinet and piano since the age of 10, Professor Campbell dedicates most of her current musical time to the clarinet...
...Head: You’re 10 minutes late for section and it’s in Yenching. Don’t fret, don’t look in the mirror. Bed head was hot on many a Parisian runway. Put on your Sevens and a vintage tee and be on your way. If you’re really daring, you can even throw a leaf in your hair like Undercover designer Jun Takahashi (though you might get weird looks from your Japanese TF?...
Nowhere have I noticed this more than in the classroom. One fellow blonde (who asked not to be named) said that a friend once asked her if she tried to speak a lot in section to compensate for her “big boobs and blonde hair.” You can go ahead and say that this is all in my head, but I feel that my ideas—whether it be on Marx or Shakespeare—are taken less seriously because of my appearance. Even in conversations with friends, my opinions are sometimes cast aside...
...system. You can call it being caught between a rock and a hard place,” Gordon said. “We have to offer good teaching to undergraduates…[but] there’s a lot of pressure to put graduate students in the classroom [as section leaders...
Similar questions about the achievement gap between blacks and whites are perplexing school administrators in suburban communities across the U.S. Nationally, black students in the class of 2004 scored 104 points lower than whites on the math SAT and 98 points lower on the verbal section. In the past, the academic-achievement gap has been attributed to the economic and social disparities between black kids attending inner-city schools and white kids going to those in the suburbs. In their controversial book exploring the issue, No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003), the follow-up to America...