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Obviously true student government does not exist at Harvard. We are ruled by the College administration. It is time to end the charade. Abolish the Undergraduate Council...
...behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic system, which bestows power, prestige and privilege. Politicians are not about to voluntarily give up their status. We have...
...behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic system, which bestows power, prestige and privilege. Politicians are not about to voluntarily give up their status. We have...
Although department and concentration advising does exist, it is clear from the ambiguity of students that their existence isn't really known and valued. Some students still don't know who their concentration advisor is. Department advisors and tutors need to make their existence and their purpose more known to concentrators, because many students are not taking advantage of a good resource...
Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin argues that even after 7,000 years or so of human civilization, we have just begun to exist. Each chapter starts with a capsule biography of people who embody contemporary concerns. Most of them are women from France, which Zeldin describes as his "laboratory."TIME critic John Elsonsays the book (HarperCollins; 488 pages; $25) "offers a quirky but intellectually dazzling view of human history as a potential guide to a glorious future...