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...picture a huge inflatable rainbow bridge spanning the Charles River from Allston to Cambridge. Lots of colors. Lots of children. And the Veritas logo splattered everywhere--all part of a plan to share Harvard's big 350th birthday bash next September with the Cambridge community...
ADECEPTIVE SIDE of Harvard's much-vaunted cosmopolitan image is its failure to encourage the students who make up the mythic Diversity to speak out for their interests. Even as the guest list for Harvard's upcoming 350th bash is being completed, students have voiced complaints that the organizers failed to invite any minority performance groups such as Ballet Folklorico or the Black Kuumba Singers to the affair. The point is that students of minority backgrounds insist on being appreciated for their differences, not in spite of them...
...Harvard resembled room, on the other hand, resembled a bigwig bash. Among the guests were President Derek C. Bok (who gave a postgame speech), Vice President Daniel Steiner '54, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, and former football Captain Steve Abbott...
...inspires adolescent guitarists of all ages. The hundreds of people packed into the Channel didn't know most of the songs the Gurus played--after all, the band was pushing Mars Needs Guitars! (Bigtime Records), its latest and largely unavailable album--but the audience didn't mind, content to bash heads and stomp on feet to the likably driving tunes...
...would have to be less isolationist. Capitalism has helped build industries which increase human lifespans while at the same time promoting major social inequalities. Likewise, consumerism drags along a lot of dehumanization, but it also forces people to interact with each other. The choice is ours: to bash consumerism or to use the opportunity for progressive ends...