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...Cornell fans covering their faces with newspapers as the Harvard hockey team was introduced and screaming wildly as their own team's starters, one by one, skated to center ice and kicked up a spray of snow in the visitors' direction. Big Red defenseman Mike Schafer added a special flourish, cracking his stick over his helmet and shaking the pieces furiously at the Crimson...
MORE callous than the arguments against action is the implied elitism behind such criticism as: "large groups of students behaved like common, uninformed hecklers. "Common? Moi? Yes, Harvard is to some extent an Ivory Tower, and reasoned debate should flourish here if nowhere else, but reasoned debate can go on ad infinitum, even ad nauseam, while "common" people die, watch Marines invade their country, and have their backyards dug up for missile silos. What is called for is reasoned debate and militancy--militancy which, like that of the hecklers, still allows reasoned debate to continue...
...equally important, it wanted to end with a flourish the careers of the two players responsible for Harvard's meteoric rise from obscurity to a national ranking...
...facade of being just another southern town. Hazelhurst residents still have aspirations, feelings, sensibilities and insights. The ability to bring these emotions to life in a stark and real way--devoid of northeast condescension and disdain--is what has enabled the so called genre of southern literature to flourish for nearly a decade...
...initial flourish last year generated nearly three candidates for every seat and brought half the campus to the polls. But attendance slipped as the year progressed, and frequent replacement elections proved necessary as members resigned. Now, barely 130 candidates want to serve on the 87-seat council. And about one-fourth of those running are incumbents, which further suggests that the numbers interested in the council's business are a slim percentage of the campus...