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Since his appointment as Eliot Master in 1968, colleagues say, Heimert has worked to maintain University and scholarly traditions. He contributes to Eliot's 21-year-old "An Evening of Champions" benefit that donates proceeds to cancer research. He teaches a house seminar on Abraham Lincoln. And in the past few years, he has been a leading opponent of house randomization--a plan that many other masters have called crucial to ensuring undergraduate diversity...
...easy to retain intellectual integrity when only certain thoughts are considered acceptable. In a dinner conversation recently, I expressed doubt about the need for an English department seminar called "Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety." ("A theoretical consideration of transvestism in literature, history, film, and popular culture from Shakespeare to Peter Pan...") Oops. Turns out I offended a gay man who had written extensively on the subject...
...teaching my Gen. Ed. course, but that doesn't mean I am prevented from working with students," says sociologist Reisman, who retired in 1976. Today, Reisman continues to advise theses, write, occasionally teach a North House seminar and serve on the Hoopes Prize committee. "I do what Harvard asks of me," he says...
...With the cold war over, lab planners shelled out $900,000 to hire Being First Inc., a consulting team from Berkeley, to help redefine Sandia's mission. But the consultants' New Age methods have produced grumbling among the lab's 8,500 employees. In one stress-reduction seminar, employees were asked to lie on the floor in a dark room for deep- breathing exercises. Lab officials insist that such efforts will help persuade their federal overseers that Sandia is keeping up with the times. "We want to be the most cost-effective and the most innovative in our management style...
...American-style drive-in theaters to the accompaniment of hamburgers and fries, washed down with Coca-Cola. One of the biggest cultural events in Kenya in recent weeks has been the national disco-dancing championships. But in Nairobi last month, two dozen representatives of cultural organizations held a seminar on "Cultural Industry for East and Central Africa" and concluded that something must be done to roll back Western (primarily American) dominance of cinema, television, music and dance. "Our governments must adopt conscious policies to stop the dazzle of Western culture from creeping up on us," Tafataona Mahoso, director...