Word: belief
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first-year—surely the Catholics at Harvard would be those who were informed and serious about their faiths, right? So far as I can tell, no. Harvard Catholics, even at the institutional level, never successfully challenged my false assumptions about Catholicism. While they certainly professed the Harvardian belief in diversity and practiced the Harvardian concern for social justice, they never seemed to emphasize basic Catholic concerns like salvation or even spiritual formation. If anything, their Catholicism was even less evident to me than that of Catholic Central students—even though the environment should have made their...
...pastor’s fears could not have been further from the truth. Rather than turning me from my faith, my four years of Catholic high school reinforced my beliefs in biblical Lutheranism. Sticking out as I did, I was always the “go-to guy” when questions of Protestant theology arose. I had to be on my toes continually: I read the Bible every day and worked to anticipate and research topics in advance to represent them correctly to my Catholic classmates. Because I always had to defend my faith, I left for college with...
...These negative perceptions, while arguably justified, have only been exacerbated by the secrecy with which Harvard masks it proceedings. The institution of the “corroboration rule”—which remained poorly defined for months after its proposal—further eroded students’ belief in Ad Board transparency. The University must be more forthcoming with information about sexual assault on campus. While protecting confidentiality, UHS must release the number of sexual violence cases it treats, tutors and deans must share how many students they counsel about these issues each year and any new sexual...
...size does not fit all, and the Crimson editorial which argues that an organization based upon religious beliefs should not be able to discriminate on the basis of those same religious beliefs in its leadership suggests either a fundamental ignorance of the nature of religious belief, or a determination in the name of “non-discrimination” to discriminate against a Christian student group which takes its Christian identity and principles seriously (Editorial, “A Discriminatory Clause,” April...
...requirement that leadership believe in the holy spirit and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The committee is in error for not demanding that the club remove this discriminatory policy from its constitution. All students should be free to participate in College activities without being discriminated against because of belief, and it is a shock and disappointment that the committee did not properly uphold Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy...