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...speech based on his new book Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos, Gold said that although its original purpose was to “nick aggression in the butt,” the U.N. fails to distinguish between aggressor and victim in international conflicts...
Such a question supposes that college students are dry leaves, blown every which way by the offhanded comments and parenthetical remarks of authority figures. Most college students are, in fact, mature and critical individuals who can easily distinguish between ill-conceived rants and nuggets of political wisdom. To be sure, professors should not attempt to deceive their students about the factual basis or validity of their opinions, but this is as far as their obligation to impartiality extends. College students are adults who are perfectly able to make up their own minds on a range of issues. Whether a student...
Besides the new sign colors (and the bad weather), this miserable December day was hard to distinguish from the same day any other year. Campaigns for the two highest offices of the council have always stuck to posters to get their messages out. Beyond poster drops, door-to-door visits from candidates, websites of varying degrees of slickness and a lot of screaming outside of the Science Center, these campaigns have long seemed reluctant to adopt more creative measures—use of a yellow bird outfit in the 2003 campaign of Aaron S. Byrd ’05 aside...
...made to live with the consequences of that forced choice (in the form of lower participation rates, a weakened democratic system and uninformed or even random voting). To keep from participating in an election, or to force an unfair decision on voters who are unwilling or (understandably) unable to distinguish between presidential platforms, but who feel that the question of Harvard’s using renewable energy is important, is undemocratic and even irrational...
There is no question that the choice of council leadership is an important one, but the present system, which fails to allow for voters not wanting or not able to distinguish between basically identical campaign platforms, mischaracterizes a group of Harvard students whose self-removal from the electoral process is distinct from mere apathy and undemocratically deprives them of a voice. No one stands to benefit from that over-simplification...