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...mean we aren’t competitive,” she says, adding that more serious teams are “public relations oriented, trying to convince the rest of the world that we are a real sport. And we are.” Despite the freedom they allow students, club sports at Harvard do not receive much financial support from the College, leaving teams to rely on fund-raising and student pocket-money to cover expenses. Harvard Red Line receives a small amount of money from the Athletics Department and the Undergraduate Council each year, according to Chen...
...appalled to learn that Iraqi girls who are kidnapped are not always taken back by their families and are sometimes even killed. How can a society that does not value equality, freedom and justice embrace our version of democracy? Iraqis play by a completely different set of rules. Why do I, a stay-at-home mom with one year of college, realize that, when the top people in Washington do not? Cassandra Hagedorn Grand Rapids, Michigan...
...presentation and course organization—and evaluations of this sort comprise a significant portion of the survey. In turn, the aggregate data of all courses should be available when students weigh courses from the whole of Courses of Instruction. As long as undergraduates are given the freedom to choose their own courses, there is no reason to restrict the amount of information that they can provide each other about these courses. The CUE Guide is only one source of information among many, but limiting the CUE in any way only limits its ultimate utility. Given that the CUE Guide...
...course, they have a right to protest as much as McCain has a right to speak, and I respect (and would defend) that right. But what kind of freedom can we possibly aspire to if we cannot learn from the politics and views of others, if somebody else’s politics are so offensive to us that we cannot bear to listen to them, learn to understand them if not embrace them? Disruptive protest has its time and place, but so does listening to contrary opinion (which is not the same thing, I should add, as complacency...
...Baker, later nicknamed "the Black Venus," left the U.S. for France while still a teen, seeking the relative racial freedom of the Parisian stage. Her sensual style of dance quickly won over the city and made her a star. During the late 1920s, she was said to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe and was certainly among its most photographed?inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors (she received around 1,500 marriage proposals). Baker was active in the French resistance in World War II?often smuggling coded messages on sheet music?and remained a lifelong fighter against...