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...sense—utilizing advanced computing skills to maliciously invade Faculty Club hard drives and wreak havoc. Rather, the term “hack” at MIT refers to any sly, intricately planned prank committed by a group of students on campus; this particular group of students were caught after slinking around the Faculty Room and setting off an alarm. Although it is unclear exactly what the students intended to accomplish, they apparently pried off a wall panel and exposed a crawl space...
...being caught committing a harmless “hack” can result in a lengthy prison sentence, few students will dare partake in such pranks in the future. This tradition deserves better than to be quashed by overzealous prosecutors and an unsympathetic judge. Even worse, by providing impetus for police at other colleges to crack down on traditions they have grown weary of, a conviction could have repercussions that extend beyond...
...Like all language or thought police, the nigger-nazis are humorless snobs who dream of a world without toilets. They are also caught in the ancient and reductionist view that the black community is little more than a motley crew of victims. Whenever someone uses nigger, they break out into breathless stories of lynchings, lunch counters and police dogs. They then assert that we nigger-users are doing little more than confirming and perpetuating our own ignorance and participating in a racist conspiracy...
...Before he died on Feb. 23, Anthos, who was gay, told police his killer had called him a faggot and later followed him off the bus. "We believe this was a hate crime," says Melissa Pope of the Triangle Foundation's Detroit office. Anthos' assailant still hasn't been caught but Pope says police believe they will catch him. The day Anthos died, police found two boys, Orlando Herron, 13,and Darren Johnson, 12, shot to death execution-style in a house on Detroit's West Side. Detroit police now have in custody six suspects whom they believe killed...
Most of all, the authors give little credit to the reality that Oxford is, in fact, in England. Like many Harvard students who are too caught up in their studies or extracurriculars to take a semester off to study abroad, I had never lived in a foreign country before attending Oxford. The experience of living in a different culture—particularly in a place as diverse as Oxford, where the majority of graduate students are international—was perhaps the best learning opportunity...