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PRESIDENT BUSH AND SENATOR KERRY BOTH WENT TO YALE, AND BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF SKULL AND BONES. IS AMERICAN POLITICS BECOMING MORE ELITIST? No. Skull and Bones is becoming less elitist...
Further, by labeling actual enforcement of the rule as “elitist,” you reinforce the notion that Harvard students should be able to get whatever they want, even if it means breaking rules. Even if we disagree on whether the rule is appropriate, I’d like to think that most of us recognize that it is still inappropriate to steal large amounts of food or treat the dining hall staff with disrespect. If someone wants to brazenly walk in without swiping, take food they aren’t paying for (causing food shortages...
Another Adams diner, Bryan Y. Ho ’06, said the new policy “kind of makes us look even more elitist, but there really were nights where there seriously was no place to eat. Sometimes I’d be forced to eat in a friend’s room...
When MARTHA STEWART arrived at her federal trial on obstruction-of-justice and securities-fraud charges last week, court watchers tittered that her pricey purse made her look elitist. Stewart carried an Hermes Birkin bag, which starts at $6,000. But really, shouldn't Stewart's jury pool be concerned with weightier questions, like how the brown Birkin pairs with an orange jumpsuit...
After reading your article in the Dec. 5 issue of The Crimson concerning final clubs initiations, my negative feelings towards these elitist and exclusionary bastions of male chauvinism were multiplied (News, “With a Streak of Pranks, Final Club Initiations Begin”). These convictions were further strengthened when I received an e-mail early this afternoon, from an anonymous author, claiming that several members of a final club were instructed to hold hostage, then kill and devour, an innocent, fun-loving chicken. Sure, the poor animal was probably purchased from a farm where it was being kept...