Word: citizenship
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...embarrassed to be a Harvard student. I was ashamed because Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the purported representative of the Harvard College student body, painted a picture of Harvard College students as immature, fussy children. In his grandiose address on student citizenship, Petersen compared President Faust’s march for civil rights to his own crusade for student rights. He advised her “as one President to another, that change does not come easily to these hallowed grounds.” And he stood firm in his conviction that Harvard students...
...Although Petersen appears to think that the College deciding not to buy alcohol for underage students amounts to oppression and denial of citizenship, this minor issue is not worth the disrespectful image of Harvard students that was projected during the ceremony. Even worse, all of the Harvard alumni and representatives from other universities have no background in the disagreements between University Hall and the UC, and were thrown in the middle of an argument over a minor issue that does not display the students here in the best light. Our student representatives should learn that moaning about denial of citizenship...
...past half century, American colleges and universities have shared in a revolution, serving as both the emblem and the engine of the expansion of equality, citizenship, and opportunity—to blacks, women, Jews, immigrants, and others who would have been subjected to quotas or excluded altogether in an earlier era. My presence here today—and indeed that of many others on this platform—would have been unimaginable even a few short years ago. Those who charge that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities...
...branding him, with cold-war gusto, "Washington's greatest new monument." But he always maintained a refugee's yearning for his homeland, and this only intensified the pathos of his playing. His Paris apartment was a veritable Hermitage of Russian artifacts, and even after he was stripped of his citizenship, he proudly described himself as Russian, an allegiance he affirmed by flying to Moscow earlier this year when he learned that he was dying...
...when Grass confessed that, as a teenager in the closing months of World War II, he had joined the Waffen SS, Walesa was a prominent critic, demanding that the German writer be stripped of his honorary citizenship of the city. Now, a year later, Grass is being welcomed back to Gdansk with a series of performances, readings and panel discussions to mark his 80th birthday - and Walesa is among those welcoming...