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Samuel M. Simon writes in his column (“Solomon’s Other Song,” Dec. 12), “As most everybody knows, the people who fight America’s wars tend to come from America’s most disadvantaged groups.” It is unfortunate that a claim based upon what is perceived as common knowledge should be so wrong. A November study (“Who Bears the Burden” by the Center for Data Analysis) showed, in fact, that 45 percent of all new enlisted recruits, excluding officers...
...Lovin’ ‘Hate Crimes’” (column, Dec. 13), John Hastrup critiques the response to a recent hate-motivated incident of vandalism at Columbia. He then applies this criticism to Harvard’s previous outcry against a “minor altercation” that left a gay student hospitalized last spring. Hastrup raises an important point: people should think twice before inappropriately labeling expressions or actions as hate speech or hate crimes. However, to label these campus responses as “misplaced outrage” to incidents that are supposedly...
Adam Goldenberg’s column “Nightmare on Garden St.” (Dec. 16) offers a skewed, injudicious perspective on the opinions of Quad residents and the issues of Quad life. Below are responses to the author’s more flawed points...
...column “It’s the Funding, Stupid,” Goldenberg argues for evenly-distributed House Committee (HoCo) funds because Harvard cannot fully justify randomized housing when resources are not evenly distributed between Houses. Yet in “Nightmare on Garden St.” he contends that Quad residents’ needs should be ignored, even though they live in the Quad, as a consequence of the very same randomized housing system. Though equal HoCo funding is necessary to justify randomized housing, the author apparently believes equal student voice and equal access to academic...
...disclosure of Valerie Plame’s undercover status at the CIA. But in a conversation at Harvard earlier this month, Woodward hinted that he knows the identity of yet another key player in the case: Robert D. Novak’s original source for his July 2003 column on Plame, which touched off the scandal in the first place.“His source was not in the White House, I don’t believe,” Woodward said of Novak over a private dinner at the Institute of Politics on Dec. 5. He did not indicate...