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...representative of…diversity.” Avid Scene readers might point out that the Scene’s editors use the phrase “representative of the diversity that we aim to cover,” not simply “diversity??—but if your conception of diversity is limited to those whose incomes fall in the top 1 percent of the country, don’t distribute this magazine to the entire student body. Kavulla and Mahtani’s critique of the magazine’s innumerable errors at least...
...dire need for a women’s center, so too would the student body benefit immensely from the presence of a multicultural center. Multicultural centers are quite common on campuses throughout the nation, and at a school like Harvard—with our self-proclaimed passionate commitment to diversity??the lack of such a center is a glaring omission...
...cause of a numerical inequality between liberals and conservatives is not productive. After all, Harvard and other universities have policies to make special efforts to hire more women and minority faculty members, and the importance of doing so is taken for granted. The idea of creating “diversity?? is now largely accepted as a legitimate justification for making special efforts to hire professors who belong to underrepresented groups when those groups are defined by race and gender. But if the purpose of diversity is, as its proponents claim, to improve education by bringing more varied perspectives...
...School] has never been a place where a person goes who wants to be an imam or a rabbi....the Christian ministry [has been] its heart,” said Eck, who is also the director of The Pluralism Project. The project—an effort to engage religious diversity??is under the Committee on the Study of Religion, which oversees the University’s religious studies...
...have had some success—as six of the nine candidates endorsed were elected to positions on this year’s council. Furthermore, about 50 percent of the 49 elected representatives are ethnic minorities and five black students were elected compared to a meager two last year. Diversity??racial, religious, ideological and otherwise—is important for the council in order to best represent the interests of Harvard’s diverse community. In the future, we hope that this campaign will inspire more members of underrepresented groups to run for office. In fact...