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Education, the driving engine of class change, played a large role in this disturbing social disease. A 2004 Century Foundation study found that only three percent of America??s 146 most selective colleges come from the bottom socioeconomic quarter of the population. At any of those campuses, it is 25 times more likely that any given student’s family is rich than poor...
...American aristocracy demonstrated by President James B. Conant ’13, it is time for Harvard to lead a transformation of social mobility. Doing so would revolutionize education, boosting both academic excellence and our mission to favor equality of opportunities. That is a worthy prescription for America??s inequality disease, and Harvard is uniquely positioned to apply the treatment. Because we can, because we should, let’s make Harvard free...
...general. That many return with such shallow stories is undeniable, and makes one sorry for the “quarter of the college career lost;” but then again, what would those same people have been doing so differently back home that would “maintain America??s position as a world leader in higher education?” Many choose careers in foreign affairs or do worthwhile social or economic research as a result of their experiences studying abroad, and the opportunity for such mind-broadening off-campus study is valuable enough that...
...democratic election, and then to cut off funding when the other side wins—whether motivated by genuine disgust, or by the desire to precipitate the Hamas government’s collapse and reverse the election’s outcome—sends a bad message about America??s commitment to the democratic process...
...America??s fundamental credibility on democracy is at stake in our response to Hamas. Respecting unwelcome yet democratic outcomes is part and parcel of supporting democracy. If reform, development and exchange programs are curtailed or cut off because of Hamas’s victory, it will not only weaken Palestinian moderates relative to Hamas—it will further endanger America??s credibility as a supporter of democracy in the Middle East and around the world...