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Those seniors who ventured into the Office of Career Services (OCS) 1999 Career Forum last Friday may have experienced a moment of deja vu. Was this not faintly reminiscent of that other mental meat market, the Freshman Activities Fair? True, the screaming upperclassmen with their in-your-face heckling have been replaced by well-dressed, well-heeled members of the "real world" who wait instead for us to come and find them. And there's no question that the handouts are a lot more enticing--free T-shirts and playing cards are certainly a step up from a fistful...
...awfully hard to expect students to swallow the idea that, given the incredible spectrum of career options, such firms comprise the same percentage of the real job market as they did at the fair. The choices represented did students a gross disservice by perpetuating a narrow-minded perception of success...
...insurance" categories contained only one company each; surely, it is not merely arrogance that leads us to believe that there must be other firms in those fields eager to recruit Harvard graduates (though we do acknowledge that the wealth of the firms represented allows them to come to the fair with greater ease). In the future, we would hope that the event's organizers would redouble their efforts to attract a wide variety of industries...
...fair, the impetus comes mostly from the firms that are recruiting. Local non-profits, magazines, school districts and Congress have few built-in mechanisms or resources to come here and woo us. OCS does attempt to present a variety of other options (or at least, direct us to the ubiquitous "binders in the downstairs reading room"). We should expect more of OCS, though. Compared to the convenience of the recruiting process, finding information about other fields is a much more arduous a task. Students who pursue other fields must be largely selfguided...
...Those looking for a hard-core political history of the Reagan years would be advised to look elsewhere, as Morris' aim has always, and without pretense, been to discover the character of Ronald Reagan. In this aspect, Morris presents a textured, nuanced portrait of the former president that is fair, honest and accurate. Or, as his son Ronnie has said, as accurate a portrait as you can make of this very strange man. But Morris succeeds not only in coming to grips with the ambiguities of Reagan, but in conveying a subtle understanding that every particle of Reagan, no matter...