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...Grille is not the problem, contrary to the continual citations of the Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission (ABCC). The problem is that the laws of this nation (which penalize states' highway funding if they do not conform to the federal drinking age) are hypocritical in their construction. In the first place, 18-year-olds have always imbibed and will always imbibe alcohol...
...Massachusetts, are not going to be altered anytime soon. So the state, and Cambridge in particular, must live with the hypocrisy. The best way to proceed is by a policy of leniency on the part of the CLC and the ABCC. Punishing college students will not force them to conform to legal norms, primarily because social norms often encourage an undergraduate drinking culture. Temperance, which should be the objective of the state with regard to such an appetite as that for alcohol, will best be served by allowing the college culture to function autonomously and for students to discipline themselves...
...temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right now, so a politician's moral position five minutes ago, or five years ago, does not have to conform to his opinion now. History as recorded by television is like Heraclitus' river: You cannot step in the same stream twice. And the wonderful secret is, you don't have...
Granted, all of these expenditures are completely voluntary. But the pressure to conform--to avoid being the one to slow down the bandwagon--often sways students into opening their wallets. After all, no one absolutely has to walk in a cap and gown for Commencement exercises. That's not to say anyone would want to be wearing pink in a sea of solemn, black robes. And when your own classmates are asking you to pledge $10 to the Senior Class Gift so that your house's participation rate will best all the rest, how easy...
Rudenstine's report does fail to take into account the problem inherent in the use of group identities to claim diversity. Diversity, as understood by the men Rudenstine cites, is the representation of varied intellectual perspectives, which only crudely conform to the group categories now used as shorthand for "representation...