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Speaking as one of more than 900 secondary school program students at Harvard this summer, I would like to express my surprise at the disrespect accorded us by other University students. Not only are we often looked upon as over-achieving, obnoxious high-school kids, but we are told we are only here for the summer and are therefore only pseudo-Harvard students. The other day, as I was walking past a tour group in front of the John Harvard statue. I heard the guard proclaim that the students seen around campus "were not real Harvard students" and that they...
Ducc's prison diagnostic-evaluation sheet notes that he suffers "low self- esteem." Ducc says that belonging to a gang is about obtaining "respect." Respect and disrespect make up the reigning ethos of the streets. Kids seek respect by joining a gang, then prove themselves by punishing someone outside the gang for an act of disrespect. In Los Angeles you "dis" a rival gang by uttering an irreverent nickname; "cheese toes" is a slang word for Crips and a sure way of provoking a gun battle...
Bennett predicted that Harvard's Core Curriculum will survive Bok's resignation, because of strong support from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). "No disrespect intended, but Derek Bok has tended to listen to the judgement of the Faculty," Bennett said. "But that judgement is defective," said Bennett, who called the core a "convenience for the faculty...
...share the stage with Clay, in protest against his foul-mouthed material denigrating women, homosexuals and minority groups. Two days later, singer Sinead O'Connor, whose song Nothing Compares 2 U is No. 1 on the Billboard charts, backed out of her guest appearance. Said O'Connor: "It shows disrespect to women that Saturday Night Live expected me to perform on the same show as Andrew Dice Clay...
What the protest over Bush really displays is not disrespect but uncertainty. Women, after all, have always known they could be mothers. It is the opportunity to have full-strength, male-like careers that is relatively new and, therefore, tenuous. What makes it frightening is the assumption that they can play both roles well. Bush has acknowledged that being a woman was easier in her day. In a speech last year at Smith -- the school she dropped out of in 1944 at 19 to marry George Bush -- she told the students, "You have so many options that it must...