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...inspiration for the narrator is Budbill himself, who hails from a blue-collar background, but has the resume of an intellectual. “I have this odd sort of love-hate relationship with the working class,” he conceded...
Emmanuel J. Simons ’04, who studies Music and Neuroscience as a special concentration, says his initial level of motivation also showed itself through diligent e-mail writing. Simons came to Harvard with a strong background in music; he had participated in choirs and studied classical piano since he was seven years old. When he became interested in neurobiology as a first-year, he was “faced with the conflict of wanting to study music, but realizing he wasn’t ready to choose between [his] two interests.” After reading various articles...
...think I think people at Harvard tend to misunderstand what diversity really means,” he says. “I would value class diversity a lot more.” Mitchell, who comes from a working-class background and lived in a diverse part of central Texas, says he hasn’t found many similar people here. Many students at Harvard come from privileged backgrounds, he says...
Race also factored into the blocking decision of roommates Kate G. Ward ’05 and Crystal I Chien Farh ’05, who found themselves sometimes at odds over their views on self-segregation. Ward, from upstate New York, is of a mixed European-Catholic background. Farh is of Chinese descent, and was born in the U.S. and raised in Hong Kong. “Probably the biggest thing that bothered me is that she said she feels more comfortable with Asians than whites,” Ward says...
This nation was founded on the as-yet unrealized premise that the law should treat all individuals equally. True progress in achieving this ideal will be less group-identity politics, and a nation that truly is blind to the skin color or background of its citizens. The movement for reparations, unfortunately, moves us in the opposite direction...