Word: blatantness
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...Harvard in one way or another, feeling like the administration focuses far more on money than ethics or rights. Katharina A. Gibson `99 describes the majority of the student population as "self-absorbed pre-professionals." She and Morrel-Samuels are equally disgusted at what they see as Harvard's blatant preparation of students for a life of leisure. Most kids can't even use a sponge, Morrel-Samuels laughs...
...Mather House alumnus, I was shocked by the blatant lack of research done by Talia Milgrom-Elcott for her April 20 column, "Randomization Reassessed." In Milgrom-Elcott's attempt to show the fluctuations and extremes of house populations before randomization, she claims that before Mather was a home for "steroids" it was a "house for science and math nerds. In fact, Mather house used to be a haven for humanities concentrators and, in particular, homosexual humanities concentrators. I do not remember seeing more than a handful of "science and math nerds" (to borrow the author's phrase) in Mather during...
...Although I certainly respect the University feeling responsible to create an environment of open and interesting interchange, one would be hard-pressed to justify a limitation of choice in the pursuit of openness, especially since it is not clear that the goals and potential results of randomization balance such blatant disregard for our freedom of choice...
Speaking of blatant disregard, randomization was a unilateral decision on the part of the University to implement a non-choice housing program that the majority of students had clearly and consistently opposed. Such paternalistic action on the part of the Administration, displaying clear disinterest in student voice on the issues that most intimately and regularly affect our lives, is a mockery of our intelligence and maturity...
...these straight high school students care? Why should straight Harvard students care? Because virtually everyone has a gay roommate, cousin, neighbor or professor who may not suffer blatant discrimination, but whose life is constrained in dozens of ways by subtle anti-gay attitudes, including in many cases the inability to come out of the closet...