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...cosponsored by the Kennedy School’s Women & Public Policy Program, National Security Program, and Women & Gender Caucus—Napolitano focused her remarks on combatting terrorist threats. But the audience, echoing the sentiments of a group of protestors outside, concentrated on immigration issues during the question-and-answer session...
...could participate in something so steeped in racist, elitist, sexist privilege. I countered that white skin and blue blood were no longer club membership requirements. But she wasn’t sold. What about the women? She persisted. After a few abortive rationalizations, I realized I had no good answer. I was embarrassed...
...reporter supposedly once asked the legendary criminal Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. "Because that’s where the money is," the gangster replied. A similar answer could be given to anyone who questions why women continue to frequent the clubs that exclude them: that’s where the parties are. Final clubs have unfettered access to social space that simply doesn’t exist outside their walls. Telling women (or men) who are sick of segregation to just go somwhere else doesn’t cut it because there really isn’t anywhere else...
...vague generalizations where specifics are needed for reasoned debate. Which of the dictatorships and monarchies surrounding Israel does the Crimson staff believe the U.S. must grow closer to? Which Israeli actions does the Crimson staff consider “atrocities” rather than legitimate self-defense? Rather than answer such questions and provide concrete policy prescriptions, the Crimson falls back on the trope—popular among totalitarian regimes during the Cold War—that Israeli actions are imperialist and racist. The Crimson appears to place unilateral blame for the failure of the peace process on Israel, making...
...Census Bureau also sent out an e-mail explaining the Census process, noting that students living on campus only needs to answer seven questions and that the information collected "affects the number of seats your state holds in the U.S. House of Representatives...help[s] distribute more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for services in your community like public transportation, campus safety, scholarship programs, and much more...