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Jack Beatty, who reviewed the book for the current issue of Harvard Magazine, calls it a "civic gift...
Communities became virtual communities; living with one another meant living in touch with one another; the American impulse to create civic associations that so impressed Tocqueville as the central feature of democracy now made its home in cyberspace, which imposed a new class system on the old. Over the disintegrated boundaries of time and space, chess players found fellow chess players, militia groups new members, religions converts, husbands wives, teenagers...
Students are generally disdainful of the council elections. Like Cleemann, they feel that the council is itself over-hyped and unnecessary. This is a shame because it is apathy exemplified. It seems that undergrads who can be so concerned about the world outside of Harvard forsake their civic obligations here as if they were second rate. While the cynics are correct that the council has limited funding ($120,000 is not all that much money for a student government) and often reduces itself to petty infighting, they ignore the democratic process which is in and of itself a beneficial lesson...
...everybody reads Ulysses on Bloomsday, Thanksgiving is a holiday in need of some tradition that the culture industry can market. Why not Arlo Guthrie? The war in Vietnam may well be long past, but we're all getting older. With the same wit he used so well in civic protest, Guthrie demonstrates how to fade into obscurity while inviting no pity. If you missed him this year--and if you want to get old without getting stupid--mark next year's calendar...
...academe, are fine for analytical purposes but do little to highlight the gritty substance. They fail us in our inability to author a new military resolve. This was apparent yesterday, Veterans Day, which translated for students into a day's break from classes. Our communal "celebration" of this civic holiday did not truly honor any present fighting honor guard nor salute the efforts of past American military men and women...