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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fair to say the council will be moving toward student performance groups," said council President Beth A. Stewart '00 after last night's meeting...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Council Nixes Sister Hazel | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...problems I've outlined above point us toward the need for an RES department at Harvard that includes (but is not necessarily limited to) programs in Asian American, Latino and Native American studies. Contrary to cherished opinion, race and ethnic studies is not a hodgepodge of theories studying a too-vast canvas of peoples. It is a legitimate field of scholarship dedicated to the understanding of race and ethnicity as cultural, historical, social and political concepts which have fundamentally shaped human collectivities since ancient times. The fact that it is interdisciplinary makes it no less legitimate than social studies, women...

Author: By Nancy G. Lin, | Title: Going to Bat For Ethnic Studies | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...Freestyle will be deciding events and the prospects for a positive outcome look good. The Crimson will be stacking these events with multiple swimmers in order to reduce the possibility that Princeton will be able to score high points. At Easterns, the top 16 places earn points toward the team's final score, so Harvard will want to fill as many of those spots as possible...

Author: By Kate B. Surman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming at Easterns | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...just need something to take your mind off my crotch," one of the scruffy regulars in the corner chuckles as his partner shanks an easy bank shot and sends the two-ball careening toward the opposite corner of the faded green table. A cigarette-choked cackle from Mike, the manager of the place, rumbles into the small pool room through a slit in the wall of the ajoining snack bar along with screams and cat-calls from the Jerry Springer Show audience. Hazy light sifts in through the spotty second floor windows, but the men inside pay no attention...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: THE CORNER POCKET | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...passion toward completion of The Thesis that is driving seniors forward in their final months of College--that is, driving them crazy. At any given meal, seniors can easily be detected by their anguished postures, contorted language and plummeting silverware. Ordinarily these dining experiences become a form of group therapy. Sometimes they are cathartic as each student subsequently reveals the lack of progress he or she has made during the previous 24 hours. Other times they are masochistic as each lies about his or her "progress...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Thesis | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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