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...characterizes a Harvard career for many undergraduates. In very rare instances, however, this fatuous game exhibits an entirely new character—a serious one. Revelry meets sobriety. I often try to avoid playing Do, Dump or Marry in its transmogrified form; I don’t want to abandon my care-free bliss. But sometimes anger and disgust swell within me and, try as I might, I cannot continue to be a jester. My former, humorless self is resurrected... this may sound vague. Why don’t I offer an example. Recently, a friend suggested...
...student handbook it is made clear that “any form of discrimination...is contrary to the principles and policies of Harvard University.” I was thus very surprised when the joint student-faculty Committee on College Life (CCL) voted 8-4 to abandon these principles and allow discrimination on our campus by giving the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) the right to remain an accredited student group...
...Palestinians to renew the peace process. But in order for the negotiations to begin again in earnest, neither side must set impossible preconditions—as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appeared to do in an interview published this past Sunday, when he said that Palestinians must immediately abandon the right of return while Israel need not stop expanding its settlements until final status talks begin...
Asking the Palestinian leadership to abandon the right of return as a precondition to negotiations, while offering nothing on settlements, is more than a diplomatic nonstarter—it mocks the very idea of negotiations. For a final settlement to be reached, it is widely recognized that the Palestinians must eventually drop the demand that all refugees be allowed to return to Israel—but presumably in exchange for major concessions on other issues (like settlements), not to mention compensation for those refugees who are not permitted to return home...
...make substantive improvements to the quality of instruction in the sciences. But it will not significantly change substandard humanities sections. Only bold measures can tackle that. Implementing Kirby’s vision of preregistration would have been a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean that we should abandon all grand dreams of radically improved undergraduate education...