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...follow the lead of Quincy, which implemented UKA in 1998 and, according to Kirshner, has seen no adverse effects. Given the success at Quincy and the improvements in student safety (which UKA can affect), some Masters’ adamant opposition seems incomprehensible. One can only conclude that some abstract notion of House autonomy has trumped concerns for the safety of Harvard’s students. This is entirely unacceptable; the College should consider pressuring recalcitrant Masters who insist on restricting access to open their doors to all undergraduates
Admittedly, the notion I’m discussing is a bit abstract. But still, one cannot deny that there exists what can only be described as an intangible—some sort of a x-factor—which renders foolish preview headlines like “M. Bball Expects No Surprises” senseless...
...longer than a shiver. The films of Japanese director Hideo Nakata--The Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999), Chaos (1999) and Dark Water (2002)--take a subtler route to spooking audiences. In his thrillers, Nakata concentrates less on the explosion of the time bomb than on the ticking inside it: abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading on a ceiling. His heroine-victims, often preadolescent girls, are guilty only of the original sin of being human; they may finally neither destroy nor exorcise the demons haunting them. Nakata knows dread...
...course it does. Because we’re not interested in personal freedom of thought. What we really want is to be in good company. It’s oh-so-comfortable to belong to a group of people who share your opinions, even if that group is abstract and statistical—numbers on a page. If we really wanted to think for ourselves, we’d demand to be rid of the oppression of the “general public” and its confounded opinions...
...Though recent debates surrounding the issue of gay marriage have made it seem primarily an issue of abstract morality, the possibility that in less than a month Massachusetts citizens—and maybe even some Harvard students—will be among the first gay couples in the country to marry makes the matter seem much more real. If the SJC lets its ruling stand, the question of gay marriage will pass quickly from the realm of panel discussions and philosophical debate to the realm of Massachusetts residents’ daily lives as homosexual couples begin to enjoy a right...