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...Fortunately, as with the guidance of science, a wise person who recognizes and values deep and innovative thinking can make fair decisions in all aspects of the University. Given Harvard’s visibility, Faust’s ability to implement visionary reforms will benefit not only students and faculty in the Harvard community, but will also seed positive change in the world at large...
...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...factors made Harvard as much “home” this week as it ever could be. First, my family, en masse, has descended on Harvard. From Mama Ezy and Mommy Parvin down to little Alexa—we’re rolling “ten-deep.” That we means we’re always looking for an extra commencement ticket, that strangers and friends alike will be entrapped by our requests to snap group photos, and that the bet of the week is about whether my mom actually bought a full page...
...clamoring for a better advising system, a real curricular review, a Pub, a student center, a 24-hour library, campus-wide concerts, and a host of other amenities—that was my job, after all, on the Crimson’s editorial board—masked an unassailable, deep satisfaction with the people that surrounded me. That will always be Harvard’s winning chip, and this week, it upped the ante...
William E. McKibben ’82 was president of The Harvard Crimson in 1981. He is the author of ten books, most recently “Deep Economy,” and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College...