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...daunted by the prospect of a 20-minute walk from the quad or a walk back to campus through a brisk winter’s wind on the river, students are largely deterred from integrating such plans into their schedules, despite largely complaining that the social scene is bereft of meaningful weekend activities...
...wasn’t always bereft of the essential American accessory. Until I was nine years old, my three younger siblings and I were as blissfully plugged in as all the other kids in our Seattle neighborhood. We watched TV after school, we watched Saturday morning cartoons, we snuck behind the couch past our Thursday night bedtimes to sneak peeks of Seinfeld—all pretty standard behavior. But it was enough for my parents to worry, as they told us countless times, that our brains were turning to mush. Once when my mother came home from a long...
...after all. But I’m beginning to think that at an affluent college like Harvard, where designer denim is de rigeur, the very notion of financial independence that Donahue seems to be invoking could only ever be an idealistic one. Here, the self-sustaining student who is bereft of parental bailouts remains very much in a minority, while the rest of us buy up big online and worry about which European hub featured on gotoday.com to visit for Spring Break. The state of being “poor” while immersed in a life of privilege...
...more students study abroad, we would not, perhaps, feel her absence so sharply. Here, though, it seems crippling; in conversation we are missing a doubles partner. I don’t think that it is study abroad’s relative unpopularity alone that accounts for our feeling so bereft. More than elsewhere, absence feels wrong here. What we love about Harvard—and what sometimes frustrates us about it—is its immutability. Mass Hall has outlived generations of occupants; passing its stolid red brick on our way to class, we know it will anchor the Yard...
Denying homosexuals the right to marry is also blatantly discriminatory and unfair. Bereft of the legal rights that come with marriage, gay couples sometimes face unfair financial hardship. Unlike married couples, they cannot share insurance policies, file joint tax returns or inherit pensions and Social Security benefits from spouses. When gay couples split up, children are not protected by courtroom proceedings that enable a judge to determine issues of custody. This leaves children vulnerable to needless emotional damage...