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A Wendy Doniger Reading of The Hungry Tide

Every Saturday morning of the Spring semester, Haverford College hosts fifty students from middle and high schools in the Philadelphia area as they participate in science and writing labs. Committed to providing opportunity to minorities historically underrepresented in STEM fields, the program, known as MAST, is comprised almost entirely of students of color. Currently, I hold the position of Middle School Science co-coordinator, and like the majority of the Haverford students that act as tutors and mentors, I am white.

English Language Learners 

 For the longest time I considered myself a 'science person' (along with an attendant sense of achievement). I was oblivious to the extent to which my personal opinions and beliefs framed my view of the world, what I wanted myself to be, and to be viewed by others. In participating in this course I realize now how utterly subjective my framing of science is, with my opinions interpreting my experience. I realize that it takes a lot of faith to be placed in the subjective in order for me to be objective.

The issue I’ve chosen to focus on in urban education is student disengagement. One struggle of teachers in urban schools that has come up a few times in education classes I’ve taken is that it’s very difficult to teach a classroom of students who don’t want to be in school, and don’t want to learn.

Silvi Shameti

Schools in American Cities

Issue Analysis

In my documentary film and photography studies,

In Judith Halberstam’s book In a Queer Time and Place, she makes the “perhaps overly ambitious claim that there is such a thing as ‘queer time’” (1). If that claim is ambitious, then I make here a claim far beyond ambition that we can further expand or “queer” this notion of “queer time” by placing it in the context of deep time. However, before I begin twisting and flipping all normative notions of time and Earth history, I will decipher some of these key terms so we may start this journey on the same page.