Wale, an up and coming hip hop artist is to also perform alongside Kid Cudi and Patrick Park at Yardfest in April. You can visit his website here. He’s collaborated with some of the biggest names in music, for example, we don’t know GAGA. Lady Gaga, if you can hear us, we would love for you to come make a cameo…and stay…forever.

“Chillin’ ft. Lady Gaga”

“Pretty Girls”

A small showing of Harvard came out to hear the Next Harvard Thinks Big Experts talk about the pressing issue of modern-day slavery and human trafficking on the evening of March 24, 2010. The panel consisted of professor Tim McCarthy, the Director of Human Rights and Social Movements at Harvard’s own Carr Center, professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, journalist and author of A Crime So Monstrous Benjamin Skinner, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern-Day Slavery Siddharth Kara, Katherine Chon, the founder of Polaris Project, an organization fighting for a world without slavery, and the headliner of the event Ashley Judd, actress and YouthAIDS global ambassador with Population Services International as well as a current student in Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

After Professor McCarthy’s long winded introduction of the big-shots of the panel, during which Professor Patterson squirmed, fidgeted, and fought to open his Evian water bottle, the panel was asked to speak of the roads that led them to become crucial figures of the modern slavery abolition movement. The drastically different stories of the panelists underlined the personal significances the cause has had in their lives.

Siddharth Kara, for example, threw his career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch aside to use his background in finance and law in order to start a campaign to research current forms of slavery around the world to eventually gather his research and provide a foundational legal and statistical analysis of the business of modern-day slavery. Ms. Judd related her story and role in the issue of slavery with the composure and charisma of a Hollywood actress, not failing to downplay her celebrity by throwing out how humbled she is to be on the same panels with her heroes and role models. She also warned the moderate number of people in the audience that she would have to dip out early because she had a conference call awaiting her. Judd recalled her experiences in the brothels of Cambodia and Thailand, where her mission was to ensure women trapped in slavery were protecting their health. Read the rest of this entry »

Issue 21 of The Voice is now available to read online here!

See your dining hall or the Science Center for a hard copy.

Theme: Spring. Yeah, we’re creative, wut.

Featuring:

An interesting interview with CS50 Professor David Malan
A Voice Guide to everything including spring trends, Harvard’s museums, and the most secret and alluring spots on campus
A dating experiment gone wrong
A look back at Harvard ladies of the 1950′s
…and MORE!

Grab a copy outside the Science Center, near your dining hall, or online.

First of all allow us to link you to THIS article titled Ethnic ‘Studies’ published by The Harvard Salient with the tag-line, “Harvard foolishly politicizes its curriculum.” Now, we have a few issues with this article. Let’s start with a few choice quotes from this article cleverly published over spring break when no one was going to notice:

• “The ethnic studies movement is motivated by an attempt to direct more attention to a topic that deserves no more attention than it already gets, and probably a good deal less. Other similarly useless departments, like Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality serve similar purposes….”
• “When the University agrees that its curriculum needs to change to address ‘the growing diversity of our campus’ or any other imaginary concern of its students, it opens itself up to politically motivated efforts like ethnic studies.”
• “It need not offer a course on African civilizations if there is none worthy of study. The progressive priorities of Harvard’s curriculum usually do not coincide, however, with the promotion of meaningful areas of study.”
• “Ethnic studies is a good example of an academic subject entirely driven by a leftist political agenda. While it is not absurd to suggest that there are some worthwhile topics that fall under the heading of “ethnic studies,” the area is certainly not important enough to merit a secondary field…Americans of color have undoubtedly done some things of note, but their ‘encounters’ and ‘experiences’ are not of paramount importance to a university education.”
• “The necessary elements of an educated man’s curriculum have not changed much over two thousand years of Western education…It is quite difficult for academia to justify an attempt to free the sciences from a ‘Eurocentric’ perspective, given that, with rare exceptions like the Abbasid Caliphate, little scientific and mathematical thought of consequence has occurred outside the Western world.”

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The College Events Board, in conjunction with the Harvard Concert Commission, just announced the second addition to this year’s Yardfest lineup, and  it’s the 33-year-old singer-songwriter from Colorado, Patrick Park.

He released his first EP, “Under the Unminding  Skies” with Hollywood Records in 2003 to limited  commercial success. He then moved to Curb Appeal  Records and released the second album, “Everyone’s  in Everyone” in 2007. (Source: Wikipedia)

His most famous work is probably “Life Is a Song,” which appeared as a soundtrack in the very popular teenage drama series The O.C., starring Mischa Barton and Rachel Bilson among others.

His mellow, understated accoustic tunes certainly  are a far cry from KiD CuDi’s catchy, mainstream  hiphop style. Even their websites are as different  as black and white. But if there’s one thing we  know, that is Harvard prides itself on diversity. The  NY Daily News predicted that “‘Everyone’ will know his name,” but that was three years ago.

All sarcasm aside, he’s actually a pretty good listen. Check out his songs which are streaming on his website: http://www.patrickpark.net/ He looks like a decent opening act for Cudi. What do you think? Yay or Nay?

His next album, Come What Will, is set for an April 6th release date on Badman Recording Co. As always, keep checking Noice for Yardfest updates!

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Here's a bunch of pictures of a facially expressive cat to make you feel better.

Dear PreFroshies,

Don’t worry that’s not what we really call you, that’s just a term of endearment we’re using for the sake of this letter. The Voice runs a little thing called Harvard FML. It’s really for us undergrads here at the school (and occasionally a sex-starved grad student) but you often send us anonymous submissions too. Like this recent one that didn’t quite make the cut:

“I’m two months away from graduating from High School and I’m pretty nervouse and scared!!”

We didn’t post it— not because we don’t like you or because you spelled nervous wrong. But we wanted to acknowledge it anyway. Don’t worry little pepper pot. College is going to be fabulous (that is if you are going to college and you are going to Harvard… otherwise we’re not sure why you’re on this site or posting on our FML so we can’t make guarantees). Harvard pretty much spoils its students— and especially you Freshmen. You’ll make lots of friends because everyone wants friends and no one will know you fell on your face in your high school’s production of The Music Man because the hem on your costume was too long. My, my that was oddly specific. But I REALLY digress:

Chill out. Enjoy your senior spring, and do try your best to shake your senioritis before you get here. Even then it’s not the end of the world.

Love,

The Voice