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...Richardson can give it to you in just one word: Reconstruction. In the years following the Civil War, the Northern Republicans, which in new-millennium speak means Democrats, believed the best way to reforge the nation was by “favoring” what Richardson calls special interest groups??you know, the workers, women, and newly freed slaves seeking a guarantee of equal rights. However, Richardson tells us, the growing middle class view was against the expansion of a government that favored any special interest group outside of themselves. If one was industrious, they would not need...
...Committee recommends that, for the first time, the officers of student groups??whether or not those student groups are recognized by the administration—will be held “personally responsible” for any incident “where serious harm, or the potential for serious harm, has come to any person as a result of consumption of alcohol or drugs,” at an event hosted by their organization. In other words, if a student makes a late-night visit to the Stillman Infirmary with a stopover at a final club basement...
...benefit that the IOP gives society by taking more politicians off the street is amplified innumerably by its educational mission. Every year, numerous “at-risk” students from the Harvard community attend intimate sessions called “study groups?? at the hope of the staff of scaring the kids straight. The large number of these students implied a failure in America’s youth prevention programs. Despite naming schools after and erecting monuments for notable assassinated politicians, within some communities children don’t heed the warning and latch onto...
...eight-member limit for blocking groups??down from 20 under the pre-randomization regime—ensures that one’s group of friends is splintered even before being arbitrarily distributed throughout campus. The “communities” that result, twelve microcosmic Harvards with ethnic ratios comparable to the University as a whole, elevate diversity not only as a principle of social or educational justice but as a fact of quotidian life...
This year, about $285,000, or 71 percent of the grants fund, was earmarked for grants covering expenses specific to student groups??a 45 percent increase from last year. Needless to say, student organizations entered this school year with the impression that the UC was in a position to support them financially, and with good reason...