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Apparently, in order to be a bleeding-heart liberal, you have to toss aside one other old-fashioned value: thought. As the sit-in approached its third week, somewhere in Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now!” I asked him why he supported the living wage. He responded with a pre-programmed response that he’d practically memorized from a handout. I asked him about the socioeconomic principles behind the movement. He stammered. I pressed for his opinion. He told...
...Harvard first-year, my political sentiments seemed compatible with my surroundings. I adopted a core of unadulterated liberalism and began to feel out America’s politics with respect to those of my home country, Canada. It took me a while to sort out the Democrats from the Republicans, but eventually the two-party system was second nature: Democrats were like Canada’s Liberals. Not too far left, but left of center nonetheless. The Republicans were about the same distance to the right. It was simple to place myself on the scale, of course: I was left...
...catastrophic idiocy of the living wage sit-in to jolt Harvard students into looking with evaluative eyes at their political surroundings. For this, if nothing else, I am indebted to the campaign. If it weren’t for the over-the-top chanting, postering, and that silly first-year who hadn’t the slightest clue what he was doing, I may still have been living the Harvard lie of blind liberalism without prudent thought. I had to be convinced that I didn’t believe in what they were doing, and they themselves were the catalyst...
...also working to establish a more student-friendly “college system” for first-year law students—a system which will require much more space...
...Some of the other schools don’t strike me having that laid-back attitude Stanford has,” says Mohan K. Mallipeddi, a first-year at Stanford from San Jose, Calif., who also applied to Harvard...