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...honestly say that I have never felt as important as I did after reading "Facing the Scars of Final Clubs" by David Friedland (Opinion, Nov. 13). Apparently, in between going to class, writing my thesis and tempting "trim" with trips to the Caribbean, my final club cronies and I have had the time to "poison the nation," topple the White House and undo the very fabric of society...
...Could Friedland possibly have found anything else to blame us for? In addition to the ills listed above, he covers Harvard's struggling party scene, issues in his own social life and even the inappropriate behavior of a former employer. How about world hunger? Or the spotted owl? Society might be experiencing moral decay, but Friedland needs to find a more reasonable target for his finger pointing and name-calling...
...article does anything, it speaks to one of the real problems facing American society--our generation's inability to take responsibility for our actions or present social conditions. Friedland went too far, though. He sacrificed accuracy and even plausibility in his sad pursuit of someone or something to blame...
There are a great many tragedies surrounding this discourse on final clubs; as Friedland himself points out, too much of the Harvard community holds opinions regarding the clubs that are substantially uninformed. It seems clear, however, that these assumptions can be traced directly to the outrageous exaggerations and blatant stereotypes that pervade articles such as Friedland...
...David B. Friedland '99-'00 is an English and philosophy concentrator in Leverett House...