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Thomas B. Cotton '98 is a government concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
When doing research, some Harvard professors slip on white cotton gloves to protect 16-century manuscripts, or conduct controlled interviews in sterilized laboratories...
...majority of those who voted in the Undergraduate Council election chose Beth A. Stewart '00 on a platform of shuttle buses for student groups, cable television and universal keycard access. Their position is straightforward: narrowly focused self-interest. Thomas B. Cotton '98, a defender of student apathy, wrote in a Feb. 18 column on this page: "Despite the sanctimony of activists, most students see, or implicitly accept, apathy about political issues as a virtue." Cotton argues that we have the rest of our life to be activists, so there is little reason to fight for anything...
Thomas B. Cotton '98 is a government concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Further, the notion that sitting in a Harvard dorm room studying 15 hours a day (as Cotton noted Thomas Jefferson allegedly did) prepares most students for anything other than a life of elitism and inaction is profoundly faulted. Where is the logic in supposing that people who contentedly spend four years doing nothing but classwork will suddenly rise from their undergraduate stupor and be ready (or qualified) to change the world? And where is the logic in supposing that it is possible to extricate oneself from society for long enough to graduate summa...