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...Harvard football, for example??€”whose numbers remain unverified—The Crimson approximates that the team is 77.7 percent white and 17.5 percent black, which is well below the 45.4 percent national average for Division I, but over twice the percentage of African-Americans in the student body in ’04-’05. Percentage-wise, the best represented sport at present is men’s basketball, at 28.6 percent (compared to a national average of 57.8 percent). Men’s soccer comes in second, with 26.9 percent of its roster composed...
...defense of these various forms of reverse sexism is that women were oppressed for so long—American women have had the vote for less than a hundred years, for example??€”that these forms are acceptable, necessary even. Yet if it is a state of gender equality we are striving for, then enhancing divides between the genders undermines the mission. To command the respect of society, it is helpful to respect that society to begin with...
...aspiring megalomaniacs shouldn’t feel the need to emulate the publication’s entertainment theme; there are millions of ways to justify a magazine about yourself. Find one, and then use the tips below—derived from Schaen’s oh-so-perfect example??€”to make your self-indulgent dream a vain reality...
Much as we love to believe our lives to be ever-so demanding and hectic, there’s little reason to think such devices necessary for most of us. While a particularly busy student in a leadership position—the Undergraduate Council President, for example??€”might derive some benefit from being able to manage his life with a PDA, that is not the case for most...
...York City, but as a citizen of North Korea, which lacks diplomatic relations with the U.S., he requires State Department permission to travel beyond a 25-mile radius of the city. During his time as ambassador, Pak has traveled outside New York—to Washington, D.C., for example??€”to visit Capitol Hill. But the State Department should have realized the importance of his viewpoint and issued him a visa to speak at Harvard. The measure of a speaker’s merit is not the content of the ideas he or she represents. Instead...