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...course, in “this empire,” the phrase he often uses to refer to America, this has proved to be no easy task. Which is where Prof. West’s pioneering pedagogical method comes in. “It’s what I call a danceable education or a singing paidea, the Greek word for deep education,” West said. The professor, then, is fully willing to pursue scholarship—just so long as he can sing and dance...
Though Petersen expressed frustration that students were not initially included in the General Education task force upon its creation last June—Petersen and Limor S. Spector ’07 joined in September—Petersen and the other undergraduates said they were pleased overall with the attention Faculty members gave to undergraduates involved in the review...
It’s an ominous time to be an American college student. Sure, education is more important than ever in our current job market, and we at the most elite universities are lucky to be at institutions where admission is becoming more and more of a daunting task. Our lives look relatively easy on the surface: We live with our friends in an intellectual environment—on our parents’ dime, no less—with few pressures or worries lasting longer than a semester...
...divisive holdover from Serbia's tortured past, Nikolic had served as vice premier in the government of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic. True to form, he caused an outrage recently by vowing to cut Serbia's ties with the West and eventually merge the country with Russia - no easy task, considering the countries are not neighbors. Nikolic was forced to resign only hours before Serifovic's plane landed from Helsinki. Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party...
Before we graduate we want to reach for the ropes and tag out of our Sisyphean task of making humorless Harvard undergrads smile. So with Drew Faust executing a perfect figure four on our mangled legs we lunge towards Erik Groszyk ’09 and Alex Pease ’09. With Erik bringing the Mass-hole perspective and Alex keeping the Milwaukee dream alive, we believe that these two will actually be able to get at least one girl from the class of 2011 to make out with them. The competition was intense, but we sympathized so much...