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After reading the article on minority recruitment by Tony Butler, Gail Dunbar, Ruben Medina, and Felix Torres, I feel that I must disagree with some of the authors' basic assumptions. The authors seem to feel that Harvard, as an elitist, racist institution, is some sort of "wonderful club"--the Porcellian Club of universities--and that Third World people should make up a greater proportion of the club members. "We are making a demand for recognition of our uniqueness, as Third World people. It is a recognition that Harvard gives to athletes, musicians, and alumni children, but not us. Until recognition...
Harvard is an elitist institution. One of the manifestations of its elitism has always been racism. This racism is evident in the way Harvard has dealt with minority recruitment and admissions, as well as all other matters concerning Third World people. It is reflected in the negligible size of the minority student community here, as compared to the white community...
Carter's only serious crime, then, is Optimism in the first degree. Despite his lust for Washington's power, he was an outsider in the true sense of the world. Oblivious to elitist protocol and disdainful of pork-barrel politics, he innocently seemed to believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable...
...denies these feelings qua clubbie, I feel, is just not being honest with himself. My original personal hatred of the club system stems not so much from the institutions themselves, but from seeing the ugly side of me they brought out. I think most of us at Harvard have elitist tendencies hidden within us--what is important is how we come to grips with them. Clubs merely embrace them...
...Nope, you're gonna get kicked all over your little Stadium, and then you can go back to your rooms in those elitist sounding Houses and cry your little eyes out. Winthrop, Eliot, Lowell. Big bunch of babies...