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Scene and Heard: Piper Kerman
I have never seen the show. I have never read the book. And, in case anyone was wondering, I have never been to a women’s prison. So why did I choose to go hear Piper Kerman, author of the book “Orange is the New Black,” speak on the busy Monday night of March 30? To be completely honest, I just wanted to get my newly purchased copy of the book signed. Luckily, I got much more out of it than just a signed book.
Posters Parodying Advocacy Magazine Prompt Controversy
Students and administrators criticize posters that appeared in Pforzheimer House parodying the new campus arts and advocacy magazine Renegade.
Emailed Death Threat Investigation Remains Open
Over six months after hundreds of Harvard affiliates received emailed death threats, many undergraduates await an official end to the police investigation into the source of the emails.
HONY and Mott Hall Bridges Academy Visit Harvard
HONY visit (weather): President Drew G. Faust speaks about the experience of being the first female president of Harvard University. Faust spoke at the Fogg Museum on Thursday morning, where Brandon Stanton, photographer and creator of the popular "Humans of New York" blog, brought students from Mott Hall Bridges Academy on a visit to Harvard University.
Khurana Discusses Teaching Philosophy in Master Class
Engaging with audience members in an open discussion, Khurana emphasized the need for students to balance advocacy and inquiry in discussing controversial topics.
Students Prepare To Launch Advocacy Magazine
A group of Harvard students have joined to launch an arts and advocacy magazine to focus on issues of diversity and identity among students of color at Harvard, called Renegade, which will debut online on Friday.
Speaker Calls Ferguson ‘Failure of the Humanities'
George Lipsitz, a sociology and black studies professor at University of California Santa Barbara, called for the reorientation of the academic humanities toward promoting social justice in a discussion Friday afternoon.
George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz, a sociology and black studies professor at University of California Santa Barbara, delivers a talk titled “Inured to Suffering: Ferguson as a Failure of the Humanities,” as part of a speakers series at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
Admissions Lawsuit Plaintiff Pens Letters Blasting Record Purges
Edward Blum—the president of nonprofit membership group Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.—sent a letter Thursday to every Ivy League university president except for Harvard’s to object to deletions of student admission records.
In Legal Filing, Harvard Denies Allegations of Race-Based Discrimination
Harvard has not filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Project on Fair Representation alleging race-based discrimination in its admissions process.
Princess Nokia
Princess Nokia answers questions Wednesday afternoon at a screening of her recently released music video "Young Girls" at the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute.