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...Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea of the right parting gift for one girlfriend was Dostoyevsky's The Possessed...
Instead of an angry mob of students demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
Megan L. Peimer ’97 and Ezra W. Reese ’97 established an Alternative Senior Gift campaign, which asked students to withhold Senior Gift donations from the University and hold them in private accounts until Harvard hired more women and minorities as tenured Faculty...
Joshua A. Edelman ’00 and Greg A. Novak ’00 created an Alternative Senior Gift campaign, which allowed seniors to donate to needy charities instead of contributing to Senior Gift...
Anne G. Beckett ’04, Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04, Celeste R. LeCompte ’04 and Amy C. Wagner ’04 established an Alternative Senior Gift campaign in order to raise money for the Cambridge Boys and Girls Club. Tamiko A. Tsurudome ’04, Senior Gift co-chair, claimed that the Alternative Senior Gift campaign detracted from the effectiveness of Senior Gift. The founders of the Alternative Senior Gift campaign claimed that they had no problem with students donating to both gift campaigns...