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Assuming the role of Emily Post for campus discourse, Evan P. Cucci advanced his view of what constitutes responsible intellectual discussion in a recent editorial. He was joined in his critique by Miss Manners for the campus press, Tehshik P. Yoon, in an editorial one month later. Yoon argued that the intellectual level of campus debate has sunk to the level of Beavis-and-Butthead ridicule...
...find it extremely ironic that the very day after The Crimson printed Evan Cucci's piece, "Forsenic Etiquette," on the futility of personal insult in the course of a debate, David Lat has the audacity to write "Rebels Without a Cause," at best a "critique" of the protests that occurred during Junior Parent's Weekend...
...majority of men and women on this campus maintain body weights that in no way pose any real threat to their health. However, Cucci describes the horrors of fat and weight gain in a manner more suitable for a Puritan diatribe against sin than a rational plan for greater fitness. He presents overeating as a "temptation" that the strong can resist but through which the weak snack their way to their eventual "self-destruction." Those who eat therefore lack discipline and control and need to be saved from their own cravings...
Harvard students do not need to be taught to "control their bodily desires" as Cucci states, nor should the pursuit of bodily improvement be a mandatory facet of college life. This university prides itself on its diversity; enforcing some sort of "healthy" standard for body shapes and size is a ridiculous idea and would directly contradict that educational mission...
Most disturbing is the author's assertion that many students justifiably "want to lose weight and improve their bodies, but simply do not know how." Even if this were true, simply sending students to the gym and nutrition class will not solve the problem. Perhaps Mr. Cucci is unaware of just how many college students, mostly women, spend time worrying about their weight. According to a recent study, as many as 30 percent of women in college and graduate school show symptoms of an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Many of these women would fall into the category...