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...student newspaper, The Crimson is uniquely positioned to provide a venue for discussion of important social issues. United by a desire to publish truthful, insightful, and interesting stories, a group of students who are otherwise diverse can come together in discussion and argument, whether it be a casual newsroom discussion about global politics or a debate on the subjectivity of beauty in the course of choosing the Fifteen Hottest Freshmen. The more diverse the people who make up this organization, the better our discussions...
...Retrospect January 30, 1956 After four years of swimming in a national goldfish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion...
...recalls a very intimidating atmosphere.“It was a very scary time,” he says, adding that gay students were often targets of both verbal attacks and projectile food in dining halls.Colantuono, who went on to become president of the Undergraduate Assembly, tells of a casual and habitual homophobia, unthinkable at the College today.“At that time in American society generally and in the culture of Harvard, there was still a lot of support for overt homophobic behavior,” he says.The first of a series of contentions erupted in November...
...remembered working on a research paper for my history class and realizing that the author of my primary source lived on campus. I remembered opening the Boston Globe and seeing the face of one of my closest friends on the cover of the living section. And I remembered a casual conversation with my roommate about the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie/Jennifer Aniston love triangle morphing into an intense intellectual debate that included historical allusions and referenced primary sources. At that point, after so much time spent on criticizing my school’s flaws, I started to truly appreciate just how unusual...
...ideas and combining them with other ideas in order to create a new and more effective chain of thought - isn't that called editing? If universal electronic access to books mean that readers will now tackle the editing themselves, Mr. Updike, in his century spanning career - comprising, by my casual estimate, perhaps 20,000-bound-between-covers-pages - could have cause for concern...