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...describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the Harvard Syndrome inevitably resorts to terms like lazy, arrogant, spoiled, overrated and elitist whenever our university comes up in conversation. Often, they will have little or no actual experience of Harvard, beyond a tour and perhaps a disastrous interview. Indeed, the sufferer may even have no idea what polysyllabic words like “overrated” and “elitist?...
...restricted solely to Ivy League students. Originally, building off of the inspirational idea of the Ivy Counsel, Peck intended to make the festival Ivy League only, wanting to use it as a means to unify the Ivies. However, fearful of falling into the stereotype of the Ivies being elitist and exclusive, he opened the festival to all colleges nationwide, but kept the name as it was in order to maintain that the focus is still on the Ivies and in order to attract more press. In addition to avoiding the scorn of non-Ivy League schools, the quality...
While there are an increasing number of female groups on campus, such as the new all-women social organization the Isis, the male clubs still represent “the old boys network” and the University’s elitist, sexist past, RUS members said. Getting women into final clubs is more of a statement than a solution to the problems that final clubs represent, Jackson said...
...punk rockers, ignoble, even criminal, it is hard to argue with any band who have chosen to share their music with a greater number, to spread whatever message they have (or pretend to have), rather than stroking the angsty egos of a highly insular—and an increasingly elitist and hierarchical—punk culture. They are, in a sense, punks within (or relative to) the punk culture itself—and that’s about as punk...
Others say companies like Athena are necessary to promote diversity in Harvard theater, which has, in the past, been criticized for being elitist and for marginalizing minorities...