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...only setback to playing the cymbals is that it takes two hands. I can’t take notes. And I’m so nervous that I can’t fully absorb the experience. I could be missing some crucial togetherness and community that making a unified sound creates, unity that transcends the loneliness and competition of college. But I am not unified. I am a beat behind and I keep missing notes. A bass drum player arrives late and squeezes in next to me in the concert shell (technical term for the vague semi-circle...
...project, the diversity angle was the hardest to address. Most of Light’s evidence reinforces the basic point that a diverse living situation is one crucial way for students to benefit from Harvard’s racial and ethnic diversity. His message to “campus leaders” is that carefully engineered first-year housing and randomization are crucial...
...curricular review to be a true success, the student body as a whole must be included in the process. In the end, students must feel ownership over the new curriculum, feel that Harvard is truly ours. This is crucial for two reasons. First, as with any product, the best way to improve Harvard’s education is to ask the customer—in this case, students. Secondly, even the best curricular legislation alone will not lead to a successful curriculum: students need to support any changes for them to be integrated smoothly. Indeed, many prominent problems...
...raging reactionary to see that academic relativism is complete hokum. All theories are not equally valid; all works are not equally important. Consequently, there is some kind of intellectual hierarchy—and Harvard has a duty to guide its students to the things that are most crucial for them to study. For example, I deeply regret having fulfilled my moral reasoning requirement by reading the “political philosophy” espoused by the Attica prison rioters and by a group of disgruntled bus passengers in Los Angeles, bypassing Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Mill. Admittedly...
...third place with a record of 9-5—up from 7-7 last year—just one game away from tying with league winners Cornell and Brown, who both finished 10-4 in Ivy play. But it fell short of its title goals, losing crucial Ivy games on the road to Cornell, Columbia and Brown...