Ethnic or Cultural Groups
Minority Recruits Find Home
When Greta M. Solinap ’13 was applying to Harvard last fall, she asked her classmate’s older sister, Diana C. Robles ’10, for advice. They had overlapped for a year at Nogales High School in Nogales, Ariz. and had kept in touch sporadically since then, but Solinap did not know Robles was the Mexican-American coordinator for Harvard’s Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program.
Ethnic Studies -- Harvard's Newest Secondary Field
The college’s Educational Policy Committee has just approved a new Secondary Field, one for which students have been advocating since ...
Asian Americans Talk About Politics, Sex, Religion, and More
<p>Asian American Awareness Week kicked off today with “Obama and Asian America,” a discussion with Jay Bhatt, the guy who founded South Asians for Obama. Didn’t make it? Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the sexy part of the week: </p> <p> </p> <p>MONDAY </p> <p>Asian American Female Sexuality </p> <p>Ticknor Lounge, 5 p.m. </p> <p>A dinner discussion with Lena Chen ’10 (don’t tell us you don’t know who she is), Christine Yu (an MIT student who talks about sex in her blog “Nerdy and Flirty”), and Vivien Wu ’08 (who, as far as we can tell, does not talk about sex in any blog). </p> <p> </p> <p>Find out what else is scheduled after the jump.</p>
Day of the Dead
The Peabody Museum hosted a Day of the Dead celebration on Tueday with a fiesta including performances by Harvard’s Ballet Folklorico and sugar skull workshops.