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Home Ground
Simon and I are sitting in the Lowell House dining hall. It is "Mexican Fiesta" night and we are eating stale quesadillas and discussing our hometown, Brookline, a suburb about 20 minutes from Harvard. Leaning forward over his tray, he whispers …
Animal Liberation
Peter Singer was an Oxford philosophy student who had little interest in animals, domesticated or otherwise, until he had lunch with a vegetarian friend one day and they began talking about the use and abuse of animals. Singer was quickly converted to the …
The Mating Game
Each year Harvard students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services (OCS), making sure …
A Pact with Solitude
I have never thought of loneliness as a gift or a reward. But it is a chance to prove to yourself that you can be your own best company. Last summer, I spent 52 days alone in the south of France, writing for Harvard's student-run travel series Let's Go . …
Commencing...and Continuing
The summer after college is a kind of demilitarized zone buffering the recent graduate from the bleary-eyed memories of sleepless nights and the stormy reality of more to come. For some it is an opportunity to begin tackling the world's complexity with …
Anthologizing as a Radical Act
"Works of art that we encounter aren't raw--they're cooked," says Stephen Greenblatt. "I'm interested in the cooking and what the ingredients were and where they came from." Greenblatt is a Shakespearean who has been called "easily the most prominent …
“What Are You?”
Most bluntly , the question was, "What are you?" Usually posed by a defiant, cocked-hip, sandy-haired child on the local monkey bars, the strange question usually left me frozen in my Strawberry-Shortcake Tretorns. What I realized over time was that even …
Treating RSI
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is not a malady that can be treated instantly. "These are soft-tissue injuries, probably best characterized as neuromuscular problems," says Emil F. Pascarelli, M.D., a professor of clinical medicine at the Columbia …
Hurting Hands
In the computer laboratories of the Science Center, where I write most of my papers and often check my e-mail, the click-click of chattering keyboards can fill the air late into the night as students hammer away on term papers, thesis chapters, and …
Handling Harassment
Reviewing the e volution and enforcement of a sexual harassment policy for FAS in "Sex and Secrecy at Harvard College" (January-February 1992, page 67), author Edward L. Pattullo cited the Faculty Coordinating Committee on Sexual Harassment's 1990 report. …
Student Arrested for Rape
Joshua M. Elster '00 , of Kirkland House and Tucson, was arrested by Harvard police January 31, taken to Middlesex County Jail, and arraigned February 2 on three counts of rape and two counts of assault and battery of an undergraduate woman. Elster …
Breaking the Silence
How does Harvard College address the possibility of inappropriate personal attention, unsolicited advances, or outright propositions in an educational setting? At least in theory, the College acknowledges that an instructor may abuse a position of power. …
Difference Voices
Once each semester , stretching into the recesses of recent memory, the Lampoon has deposited a parody of its arch-rival, the Crimson , in every undergraduate doorbox. The often hilarious send-ups of the self-important daily feature specious and sometimes …
All of Harvard's a Stage
From backstage , I can hear only the rustle of papers and the clatter of metal chairs against the hollow risers. Through the cracks in the set, I peer first with one eye, then the other, only to glimpse slits of faces that sharpen into focus and then …
Harvard’s New Acreage
From her office on the ninth floor of Holyoke Center, Kathy Spiegelman has a sweeping view southwest. She can look past the roof of Malkin Athletic Center and across the Charles to the campus of the Business School and the concrete bulk of Harvard …