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...more than 400 officially registered student organizations at Harvard College, only a few have explicitly political goals. But over the past few weeks, our campus has seen a level of engagement and interest in the upcoming presidential election that is heartening, given the traditionally low rates of voter turnout amongst 18-29 year olds. Various groups of students from diverse backgrounds and divergent agendas have come together to engage each other in a civilized, intellectually honest, and energetic discussion. We commend all of these students for their efforts, and applaud the College as a whole for fostering these encounters. Perhaps...
...What is the fallout? We have dragged the worst of the world beyond college back into it, and placed our theoretical compensation in an unknowable future. We have mortgaged integrity and inner peace for a leg up in a nasty four-year scuffle amongst ourselves. Forgetting reconciliation and interdependency, we mime something that—our minds scream out—is ugly...
...Lowdown:The Get-Your-Man-to-Marry-You plan will undoubtedly be a bestseller amongst certain women. And, if they can get past the rambling clichés and hokey real-life examples, it might even help them get married. But does any self-respecting person want to be one of them? Somehow, manipulating a man down the aisle doesn't seem like the recipe for wedded bliss. Nor, despite Uscher-Pines' protests to the contrary, is it some new brand of feminism. Perhaps the biggest manipulation of all? Promising desperate women your book will help them get married...
Smith said that the CRI hopes that rowing will have a new place amongst residents of the Boston area and that the new building “will make public access to the river a permanent feature...
...world of literature. At day’s end, Mario Kart is not the same thing as Moby-Dick; if the former is to be offered alongside the latter, it must be on a provisional basis only. While we should hardly resist the chronic adaptation of interests and habits amongst young people, we must simultaneously insist upon the preservation the our more classic literary forms. After all, perhaps there is less cause for alarm than a few among us might suggest; perhaps the duel for the hearts and minds of students is not quite a zero-sum game. Mark Seidenberg...