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Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...oftentimes deluded or flawed characters. This makes La Perdida as engaging as good theater. A typical scene pits Memo against Carla in a long argument about the purity of Carla's motives for staying in Mexico. It lasts for over five pages with Memo saying things like "You teach over-priced English classes to under-educated Mexican morons who buy into the imperialistic American model?" To which Carla wonders about Memo's real reasons for learning English. "It wouldn't have anything to do with buying into imperialist American aesthetics of female beauty, and wanting to get into some naturally...
While he concedes that it may no longer be possible for colleges to teach morality, he argues that colleges should provide, through coursework, the skills necessary to arrive at an adequate personal morality...
...Ahsoka calls them—are defined as people who have “a big new idea, creativity, entrepreneurial quality, social impact of the idea, and ethical fiber,” according to Ashoka’s website. “[They’re] not there to...teach them how to fish but to build a new fishing industry,” Drayton said. Ashoka started in India with a budget of less than $50,000. Today, it spends over $17 million a year financing over 1,700 fellows in 60 countries, according to the organization?...
...five years at the helm, including boosting financial aid and focusing on the life sciences. “These are some of the things I hope my successor will care about,” Summers said. Summers suggested that the set of courses that faculty members individually want to teach is not necessarily the best selection of courses for students—a remark that drew impromptu applause. Asked by one dad whether faculty tenure is an impediment to promoting excellence in undergraduate education, Summers expressed concern with the increasing age of Harvard’s professoriat due to tenure...