Word: draft
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...East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation, he is off to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry—a plan of action he jokingly calls “gainful unemployment.” But Fisher relishes...
...Summers’ agenda is now the University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into the ways in which Summers has attempted to mold Harvardt, successfully and not. Today, it remains unclear whether the University in a few years will resemble the draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same...
...feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...alternative sources of energy. Some people entered the military, but the masses simply kept going about their daily lives, going to the mall without a second thought about participation. The much-hyped youth vote never materialized in 2004. The war in Iraq provided another opportunity. But there was no draft, nor hundreds of Harvard students trying to enlist. We did not protest in large numbers. Rather there was a collective shrug...
...arguing for a draft or gas rations, but rather that the lack of these policies belies a larger problem. We think we can do whatever we want. We can have a war and economic prosperity. We can pursue terrorists while driving large gas guzzling cars. Our generation has never been asked to make a tough choice, a sacrifice, or a compromise...