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There are countless statistics which convey the large proportion of humanity that lives in an extreme poverty that will never touch Harvard’s halls. Statistics, however, remove poverty from the conceptual argument. For example, readers of this very page generally view the illiteracy that is characterstic of extreme poverty as the inability of individuals to read, when, in fact, the same is true for the inability of literate individuals to comprehend what it means not to be able to read. The challenge for readers of this page is not bringing others to understand these words, but understanding...
...fight against measures that would equalize our school system—an infrastructure that funnels substanially more funding for the schools in wealthy neighborhoods, leaving schools in poorer areas, be they urban, suburban, or rural, to literally rot away. Johnathan Kozol’s book Savage Inequalities makes this argument, graphically illustrating the funding discrepancies with stories of children being forced to learn in completely racially segregated schools, in closets and bathrooms, in condemned buildings, or with outdated books. But the most upsetting part of Kozol’s book isn’t the accounts of deteriorating buildings that...
There’s a debate in section, and someone throws out an argument or a comment that has so little to do with the topic at hand that you are rendered unable to speak for a series of minutes, hours or even days...
...effort will be made here to rehash all of his 1,038 word diatribe—please visit the Daily Sun’s website for the full masterpiece. Rather, I’d like to follow what I consider to be the worst published argument against athletic scholarships that I have ever seen...
After having already abandoned the intellectual highway for the dirt road, Kuhls drives his argument straight into a lake by rattling off a history of big time players and schools who have gotten themselves into hot water with the NCAA...