Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never ceases to amaze me that Harvard students, pursuing their education at a place that claims to teach them to think critically, continue to rely on tired cliches and useless generalizations when referring to final clubs and final club members. The rants are familiar: Final clubs are "sexist," "elitist," "racist," "classist," "homophobic," etc. If we are to believe the tirades of Crimson writers and the submissions of certain well-opinionated students, final clubs are also responsible (along with investment bankers) for the moral corruption which plagues our University and our country. Have I covered all the bases? It really doesn...
...author who wins the National Book Award can claim literary prestige, but an author who wins the Imus American Book Award can claim a big pot of cash, along with an influential endorsement. DON IMUS, radio's most popular curmudgeon, created the awards to counter the "elitist" selections of those other book honors. Of the four winners announced last week, two were selected by Imus and two by listeners, who voted for their favorites online. Imus' top pick was Freedomland by novelist Richard Price, who will take home $100,000. The other three winners (Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch...
...ladies come to your clubs because, at three in the morning, you're the only game in town? How can Kahn consider others to lack the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students, when the final clubs can be described as sexist, racist, elitist, classist and homophobic...
...only solidifying an image of yourselves as dorky high school students who now think of themselves as cool intellectuals at Harvard." I am not one of the people he was responding to, nor do I share the opinion of the Crimson editors that the clubs are centers of "elitist debauchery." I do, however, feel quite an aversion to the sentiments put forth by the young Mr. Kahn...
This is not because the clubs are the elitist centers of debauchery that they envision but rather because these people do not have the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students. Perhaps, when these socially challenged students figure out that there is more to college life than classes and studying, there will be viable social options available to the entire student body...