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There is a natural tension between the armed services and academia and this tension flourishes here at Harvard. We order our Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) peers off-campus to practice their patriotism and though we may cloak this distaste in the contemporary persuasive cloth of gay rights, our true military aversion runs much deeper than that. The hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might...
Associate Professor of Education and Psychology Gil G. Noam warned of the potential for disconnect between the ivory tower of academia and the realities facing service projects on the ground...
...Crimson identifies academic and extracurricular activities as “arguably the most beneficial aspects of college life.” How can work experience not be included among these? Few among us will pursue careers in academia or in our extracurricular interests. Learning the value of a dollar, however, is one of the most important lessons in life, and one way this can be achieved is by having students contribute to the cost of their education...
...interest in intellectual advancement to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Renunciation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of academia, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends...
...therefore, the Representatives of the Harvard Student Body, appealing to the Supreme Judge of academia for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good Students of this University, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Students are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Core Curriculum, and that all academic connection between them and the Core Curriculum, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Students, they have full Power to choose electives, reject large classes, pursue...