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...Although Task Force member Brent Whelan said he was “excited” to see Harvard’s expansion plans progress, he also said he was worried about the University’s commitment to working with the community...
When the 13-person General Education Standing Committee began deliberating last fall, they had a huge task on their hands: giving shape and meaning to an amorphous mandate that would guide the education of undergraduates for a generation...
...come in with a quite frankly muddled piece of legislation,” said Gen Ed committee member Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08, referring to the Final Report of the Task Force on General Education. “At the end of the day, the categories are very hard to take as these structures that stand alone...
...Sirleaf lost her first presidential bid in 1997 but went on to defeat former soccer player George Weah in the 2005 elections, pledging to bring “motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency,” according to the BBC. As president, Johnson-Sirleaf confronts the difficult task of repairing a country ravaged by war. “She faces what other people would see as insurmountable challenges in restoring a country torn apart by 14 years of the most brutal civil war,” said Hunt, who worked on Johnson-Sirleaf’s campaign...
...allowing marginalized historical characters to have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized and those without access to imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such...