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...feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization” propagated by the Salient...
...percent of students opposed the plan. Even freshman proctors issued a collective statement against the changes. This newspaper urged students “to engage in organized protest” against the Core, “for the sake of a better Harvard education and for opposing the elitist process used to formulate the proposal...
...Harvard Economics Department” and “Rage: I’m a Working-Class Queer Black Woman,” also lists resources on feminism, activism, and the local arts scene. The guide does not pull any punches in its criticism of campus institutions it considers elitist. Regarding final clubs, Drummey writes: “Going to and joining final clubs means to tolerate the sexism, elitism, and nepotism that they facilitate. For the socially conscious Harvard student, these are institutions not only to avoid but to expose for what they are and for the unjust practices...
...easy to dismiss the congressional page program as an antiquated, elitist form of serfdom. That's because it is. I should know - I myself journeyed to the Capitol a decade ago to become a Senate page. On a snowy January day, I moved into an $8 million dorm that housed a group of teenagers better connected than Jack Abramoff...
...noted by film critics—include John Cassevetes, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer: brilliant artists whose work is largely unnoticed by the casual filmgoer.But obscurity is not what Bujalski intends: “My biggest fear at the moment is that my films might be elitist, which I never intended them to be, and I don’t ultimately think that they are,” he says. Indeed, as important as his VES degree were Bujalski’s extra-curricular hours spent at the Harvard Film Archive or the Brattle. His tastes are broad...