Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be far too easy to assign blame to institutions like the residential houses for failing to provide adequate support networks for students or to our professors and teaching fellows for burdening us with unrealistic amounts of work. But while blaming peoples may be a natural reaction, it cannot change what has already happened and it does nothing for our grief...
...this not the message I heard as an 18-, 19- and 20-year-old at Harvard? Why does drinking seem the given on this campus? At least two parties are to blame: the College and undergrads themselves...
...undergrads are perhaps most to blame for pushing alcohol on their fellow students, underage or not. Put aside the extreme cases of hazing, which we all know take place here at Harvard and should be more of a concern. It is our social scene itself that every weekend, and on many a weeknight, too, damages the psyche of the non-drinker. I guarantee you that every time you plan a party around scorpion bowls or keg stands, someone feels pressured to drink. I have been that person. I guarantee you that every time you go around the room and have...
...Quad's own inhabitants are partly to blame for its image problem. The average Quadling, when asked how he or she can stand living there, will at best murmur that it's not so bad, really and inevitably conclude with a rueful comment on the distance. That's all wrong. The proper response should be: "What are you talking about? It's great!" Too often the Quad resident is actually brainwashed by this kind of misdirected sympathy into feeling sorry for himself or herself. There's really no reason for it. We ought to be smirking, or even openly boasting...
...fellow Pfohosers, we cannot blame the FM editors for their ignorance. After all, they are only human. And just like the rest of us, they have deadlines to meet, things to see, people to do. They certainly don't have the time to take the three-minute shuttle ride to the Quad. I mean, they are so pressed for time that they couldn't even check the spelling of our house--or even realize that the picture of "Cabot House" was actually Moors Hall of Pforzheimer...