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...Crimson, for example, only the president and the managing editor are responsible for everything published in the paper. The many other Crimson editors have the ability to go to editorial meetings where they are able to discuss and alter editorials, and choose whether they they want to affirm staff opinions. Each of these other editors does not, however, have either the right, time or interest to read over every single opinion aired by a Crimson columnist. Would the staff be willing to apply the same standards to itself as it does to Peninsula members? We don't think...
...preamble to the Constitution of the Undergraduate Council reads: "We, the undergraduates of Harvard and Radcliffe colleges,...reconstitute an undergraduate government to represent student interests; to secure an active role for students in deciding official policies and priorities; to safeguard academic freedom and student rights and to affirm the student citizens' dignity and worth." Here, then, is the heart of the mission of our student government. The council must stand up for student interests, not as an appropriation of power from some other entity, but because if we do not give voice to our concerns, no one will care...
...ceremony does not affirm ROTC or military policy, Nelson said. Rather, it supports the students who have committed time and effort to participate in ROTC during college...
Where I have seen an ideal of a fellowship both divided and united by the memory of its painful past and thus enabled to teach the future by recalling that past, others have seen a dastardly plot to rehabilitate the lost cause of the south, or to affirm in the present the subtle and not-so-subtle racist ideology of a society that has not yet reconciled itself to its citizens of color. This present discourse is complicated by the fact that while it would appear to be about unhealed wounds between the north and the south, it is really...
...terribly false assumption is that African Americans are either unwilling or unable to engage in discourse about affirmative action. As graduate students of political science, we understand and affirm the necessity for a legitimate and timely examination of this issue in addition to a long overdue examination of America's will to racial justice. As engaged members of this intellectual community, we affirm each individual's claim to intellectual freedom and dissent. We also understand and affirm the dignity and respect that each of us is entitled not simply as members of the Harvard community, but rather, as members...