Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's provocative Opinion piece by Kenneth A. Katz on restoring the draft is a commendable opening argument. Arguably, this and like communities have in late years shown remarkable concern for elitist self-protection. Much of Harvard has also shown a disingenuous capacity for contradiction and ignoring its own history...
...have noted, for example, that the citizens who chased ROTC off campus now complain that Blacks and the poor are unduly represented in the military. (The poor part of this claim is somewhat specious according to current statistics on Army enlistments.) Despite draft deferments in the Korean War, the elitist colleges, including Harvard alumni and this writer, were well represented in the officer corps. Katz might examine what influence--heavy casualties aside--the military service of elitist college alumni had on the ultimate disillusionment with the Korean conflict that beset decision makers in Washington, the press, the academies and other...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) rejected Schkolnick's final appeal, claiming a lack of jurisdiction to intervene in the matters of a private club. SWAT has been swatted, ZIP has been zipped and the Fly remains open--open to continue its antiquarian membership policies, open to perpetuate an elitist old-boy network, open to treat women like slabs of meat...
Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men were men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with. They are a thorn in the side of tolerance, equality and diversity...
...every soldier who does not mutiny worthy of being reviled? Is every bystander who does not rush into a burning house to save innocent children guilty of their deaths? Of course not, precisely because it would require heroism to do so. It is elitist and untenable to take such a position, especially from the safe haven of Harvard University. How easy it must be to sit behind your Macintosh and write that people whose lives would be jeopardized by acting heroically must nevertheless act heroically to avoid being reviled as monsters...