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...exam, since Cores supposedly need to include both. But this can’t be true, since the 1,115 of us taking Justice are well aware that we don’t have a midterm. Confused from this realization, I decided to try to find out what Core criteria actually are before beginning my quest for the Holy Grail of petition approval. I downloaded a 33-page document detailing the philosophy behind the Core Curriculum, the assumptions that helped develop the Core, detailed descriptions of each Core area, recommendations about when to take Cores, and requirements broken down based...
...presidential elections with the approval of international observers. Let me reiterate that no one selects Argentina's friends but Argentina. President Kirchner, [Brazilian President] Lula, Chavez, are all in sync with regard to the need to integrate into our own regional bloc, and Venezuela meets our criteria with regard to democracy and human rights...
...real disappointment (the repetitive “Teeth in the Grass”), this album seems to have a few such teeth. It may seem silly to judge an album based on rigid, preconceived notions of what it should have been, but in a sense these are the criteria with which we judge all our favorite artists. To return to his roots, to basement recordings and a reliance on his haunting lyrics: that’s what we expect from Iron & Wine. As for complexity and diversity of production—well, there’s always the new Animal...
Even those who brushed off the post as merely a tactless joke admitted that the “joke” is based, however remotely, on reality: that some final club members are frighteningly pompous about their “ornate” clubs, and that criteria for an “ideal” date at most of these institutions would not correspond with the Harvard admissions office’s pamphlet on diversity...
This feeling—this pervasive sense that a final club member’s date is expected to be blonde and white, and that a date who does not fit these criteria is potentially “embarrassing”—is what deserves conversation. As a shared understanding, it undermines the similarly popular idea that sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are too backwards for Harvard. Students and professors who complain of them, so this thinking goes, must be overly sensitive, crying “injustice” where none exists...