Word: feb
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...those who voted in the Undergraduate Council election chose Beth A. Stewart '00 on a platform of shuttle buses for student groups, cable television and universal keycard access. Their position is straightforward: narrowly focused self-interest. Thomas B. Cotton '98, a defender of student apathy, wrote in a Feb. 18 column on this page: "Despite the sanctimony of activists, most students see, or implicitly accept, apathy about political issues as a virtue." Cotton argues that we have the rest of our life to be activists, so there is little reason to fight for anything...
Thankfully, we have no equivalent evils today. As Andrew A. Green '98 wrote in a Feb. 3 op-ed, "The tenor of campus politics this fall revealed a pervasive ignorance and selfishness among undergraduates." Which worthy causes does Green lament have not been taken up? [W]e have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas." Each of these concerns is Harvard-centered, and with the exception of a multi-cultural student center and an ethnic studies department...
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