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Firestone—who took the semester off to work for the Kerry campaign in Florida—will return to Harvard for the spring semester, busying himself with the research that took a backseat to campaigning...
Rather, it’s the word itself, its forbidden nature, its taboo. I remember when it first struck me. The year was 1995 and I was 12 years old, driving in the backseat of my mother’s car. She was listening to her usual adult alternative contemporary station and a song from a new, young Canadian songstress came on. I grew 10 years listening to those lyrics that somehow passed unedited into my ears. There was mention of some broken relationship, some new person, some mysterious mention of a “cross-eyed bear...
Clemens, by contrast, is a recent convert to the conservative cause. “I was uncommitted before college,” the Lowell House resident says from the backseat of Fernandez’s Lumina. “I first started getting active in the Republican Club as a result of Ec 10 with Marty,” Clemens says—using an affectionate nickname for Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, a former top Reagan adviser. Clemens says that as he progresses farther in the economics concentration, he has become more committed...
...streak turns sour when a Kerry supporter unloading her toddler from the backseat of a minivan shakes her hand in Clemens’ face and yells, “Boo, boo, go away.” So Clemens cheers up when he encounters a Bush supporter hosting a yard sale at the next stop on the route. Clemens swaps a Republican party flier and $1.50 for a space heater and two t-shirts...
Harvard must recognize that it can no longer claim to be protecting its BGLTQ students against discrimination if its non-discrimination code can be overridden in order to give others a particular experience or benefit. If it is to allow the non-discrimination code take a backseat to expediency, the University ought simply to drop the code altogether. Such a code is merely a slap in the faces of those it claims to protect if the protection it guarantees is contingent. If Harvard has a non-discrimination code that it does not follow, it is modelling intelectual dishonesty?...