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...between service to country and self-expression. If it is your misfortune to belong to this marginalized minority, you can forget about a military career unless you hide your true identity in the shadow of the closet. Can we watch unmoved as our compatriots suffer the bitter bite of bias? Can we permit this brazen affront to the Most Holy Ideal of Equality? Nay. We cannot. We must not. Let the military be banned from Harvard forever...
...Witness, for example, the words of John F. Bash ’03, whose opinion piece on this page began with the all-too-easy admission that “the United States military has an undeniable anti-gay bias” and went on to explain why that bias should be overshadowed by our desire to fill the military’s senior ranks with the “progressive thinkers” that only enlightened Harvard can produce...
Until they do, one can’t help but wonder if the shrill pitch of the ROTC debate has less to do with anti-gay bias than with the fact that homosexuals happen to be one of the groups deemed sacrosanct by the priests of the sensitivity cult. If so, then ROTC is simply one more sacrificial lamb immolated on the altar of political correctness...
Despite being a chemistry and physics concentrator, I found the comments of Alejandro Jenkins ’01 on the bias of grade inflation toward the humanities (Letters, “The Science of Grading,” Oct. 15) to be rather unfair in their interpretation of this bias. Jenkins (and many others) overlook the fact that this discrepancy has a simple explanation—class size...
Hate the way Scott Brosius—Scott Brosius—has won three championships with the Yankees while great ballplayers like Tony Gwynn have retired with none. Hate Mariano Rivera’s sub-1.00 postseason ERA. Hate The Curse. Hate Tim McCarver’s obvious broadcasting bias. Hate how the sportscasters fawn over what class acts the Yankees are—as if Seattle’s John Olerud and Edgar Martinez ran around strangling cats in their spare time...