Word: beirutization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...junior loitering on campus during Commencement, I got to see the benefits of the annual fund drive firsthand. Mather, my house, had placed second in Senior Gift’s inter-house competition, with 83 percent of seniors participating. The Class of 2004 celebrated their win with a Beirut barbecue in the courtyard, financed by the cash prize they’d gotten in exchange for giving so much...
...Beirut tournaments are just one of the many convincing rationales for giving the requested $10 contribution to Senior Gift—an annual drive that asks seniors to donate to the Harvard College Fund before they graduate. The most convincing is that the cause is good—donations both help students matriculate by channeling money into financial aid, and help improve their experience once they’re here by pouring money into unrestricted funds. I’ve gleaned a lot from my Harvard experience, and I don’t think it?...
Another convincing rationale, but also one of my concerns. The thing is, while the College is trying to woo me with a Beirut tournament and the suggestion that by refusing to give “only 10 bucks” I am unappreciative, another side of the campus—students screened as potentially higher donors—are appealed to with a different lure: the promise of influence...
Since it was founded last year, the Southern Society (SoSo for short) has actively promoted a more complicated and nuanced picture of the South. They still throw Beirut competitions, but they also co-sponsored Senator John Edward’s recent visit to the Institute of Politics. They might still love Southern Comfort, but there’s more to SoSo than liquor...
...safer to travel to the slums of Detroit or the suburbs of Tel Aviv? How about the Indian side of Kashmir versus the posh campus of the American University of Beirut? According to Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), students are free to visit the formers, but Israel and Lebanon are still...