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Gawker was quick to defend itself from these scoldings, claiming “Why did your brain go there? Because you’re an eensy bit racist, is why. In 2010 these people’s rocks should be overturned, because they’re jerks and sometimes public shaming is just what the doctor ordered. Hopefully next time she’ll think before she wonders if, and that’s a big IF guyz!!!, black folks might just be born stupider...

Author: By Silpa Kovvali | Title: Gawking at the Ivory Tower | 5/3/2010 | See Source »

Which is precisely why it’s so important to have these conversations. When we encourage people to keep possibly prejudiced views to themselves, they never have to confront or defend them. I express such remorse about this loss because, if there has been an overarching theme to my time at Harvard, it’s that when you put two people in a room who disagree, wonderful things can happen. If there’s been a theme to my last week at Harvard, it’s that, apparently, if you put a tape recorder in that...

Author: By Silpa Kovvali | Title: Gawking at the Ivory Tower | 5/3/2010 | See Source »

...also attacked with a plate of pasta. When the police arrived they observed noodles dripping off of Mohammed Warsam. The victim said he threw water bottles at the woman to defend himself. But we think it might have been more productive if he had saved the water to rinse the noodles off of his body...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Manners Enforcers Hit Man with Fists, Pasta | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...know I am not the first conservative to bemoan the liberal bias of the Ivy League. It is also true that more liberals than conservatives choose careers in academia. Nevertheless, Harvard is cheating their liberal students by having an overwhelmingly liberal faculty, because neither must vehemently research and defend their views during class debates. Recently I had a face-to-face meeting with Dr. Lisa Coleman, our new Chief Diversity Officer, and I was very encouraged by her willingness to listen and consider these points. I implore her and President Faust to include “political and social ideology?...

Author: By DAVID R. DIXON | Title: Creating Real Diversity | 4/22/2010 | See Source »

...that vilifies writers like these, it goes without saying that defenders of plagiarists are few and far between. Few, for instance, would dare defend a writer like Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, whose novel—“How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life”—borrows more than just a few words from several previously published books. Few, that is, except for David Shields, who, in “Reality Hunger,” maintains that Viswanathan must be considered an artist precisely because?...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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