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...troublesome as it was, however, the great grape debate did not surprise me. Harvard's activists have periodically conveyed their confusion as to whether the "protest" or the "cause" should be the engine driving the train. When Stich describes the singular disinterest with which the activists seem to approach community service, perhaps she is noticing this phenomenon. Getting "down and dirty" in the trenches, making a positive difference in the lives of the less fortunate has rarely been the priority of the activists. Rather, many simply seem anxious to talk...
...about everything, or at least a little something about how to approach everything. However, the lack of flexibility in the present program herds too many students (sometimes more than 900) into specific courses resulting in class overcrowding, a prescribed scope of study within a subject area and often the disinterest and disdain of students. If Harvard were to move more toward distribution requirements (allowing, for example, any history class to count for the "historical study" category), then Core classes would be smaller, the breadth of education larger and the students more engaged...
...sponsored boycott on table grapes in the misleadingly-titled Oct. 31 article "Students Object to Serving Grapes." Their basic attitude was along the lines of "I don't know much about this issue, but it certainly can't be as important as my desire to eat grapes." This utter disinterest in the welfare and quality of life of others speaks terribly of the student body...
...disadvantaged socioeconomic groups to fight for economic--or political--power. As a result, there has been an increase in the gap between the classes, and we seem to be heading toward a society in which only those who are already privileged have an opportunity to achieve economic success. The disinterest in these issues on the part of Harvard students reflects a tremendous callousness of a comparatively insulated collection of people, and confirms the worst stereotypes about the nature of our student body. Daniel K. Biss...
...beat-them-join-them strategy. Media analyst Barbara Lippert considers the campaign rather cutting-edge. "The trendiest thing," she writes, "is the underlying strategy: to acknowledge that the consumer is so inured to being sold, so over-saturated with media, that the only way to break through layers of disinterest is with cynicism...