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Week in Review (May 30 – June 6): Campus Diaspora Edition
Monday, 07 June 2010
by Will Saborio
Since it’s summer and we know you’re busy at your super-important [insert bank here]/[insert NGO here]/[insert research institution here] internship or backpacking across Europe or voraciously watching back episodes of Gossip Girl, we here at The Ink round up the week’s news so you don’t have to. Today we’ve got some graduations stuff, some art
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IN PRINT: Gates on Genetics
Friday, 12 March 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke to a packed audience in the Carl A. Fields Center March 5, explaining his current project on ancestry and his goal to implement genetics testing into history and science curricula for inner-city schools. He began his talk by showing clips of African American Lives 2, the second PBS
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IN PRINT: Student Efforts for Haiti
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
On Jan. 12 Miriam Camara ’10 was surfing the Web when she stumbled upon news of the Haiti earthquake on Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s Twitter account. Although Camara was raised in New York, her mother is from Haiti and has strong ties to the many members of her family in Port-au-Prince. “I called my mother immediately
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IN PRINT: Salinger trove in Firestone
Friday, 19 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
With the announcement of his death, fans of The Catcher in the Rye anxiously await the fate of J.D. Salinger’s literary estate. Firestone’s Department of Rare Books holds a small portion of the writer’s unpublished works: The collection includes seven short stories from the 1940s, the most well-known of which is “The Ocean Full of
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IN PRINT: Eating Club Task Force
Saturday, 10 October 2009
by David Walter
Lawnparties, Sept. 20: On Prospect Avenue, all was well. Clothes were pastel. The sun shone bright and warm. But as dusk drew its curtain on the end-of-summer blowout, one could just make out, on the horizon, something hazy, new, indistinct. Perhaps it was a flareup at a refinery down the turnpike. Maybe, though, it was
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