Word: hastrup
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...typical Hastrup proposal,” says the future Mrs. Hastrup. Running with her fiancé through a state park near her home in Easton, Mass., Stephanie L. Sawlit ’07 was sure he was going to pop the question that day—she just wasn’t sure when. The picturesque woodland setting seemed appropriate, but they returned to Sawlit’s house sans ring. That evening, at a dinner to celebrate her mother’s birthday, Sawlit, sitting next to John W. Hastrup ’06, could feel the rectangular ring...
...sending 112 hard-copy acceptance letters—as well as banners carrying the school colors—to rejected students. Yet despite a number of mix-ups at various institutions, students do not seem to be too skeptical of the admissions e-mails they receive. John W. Hastrup ’06, who is also a Crimson editor, said that his acceptance e-mail from Boalt “seemed fairly genuine.” And in his case, it was. The e-mail problems that other Boalt applicants experienced will not change the way he views acceptances...
...Watch out for December 26, 2011. You’d better stock up.1.Top-10 lists. They’re uncreative, don’t flow well for the reader, and are padded with frivolous items to squeeze out a full 10. They are also devoid of any irony.John W. Hastrup ’06 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears regularly...
Even at liberal universities, incidents of hate are not “small, isolated occurrences.” They happen more frequently than people assume, and, as Hastrup concedes, their effects extend beyond individual victims. All minority students, and especially queer students, were sent a frightening message last spring when a fellow student was beaten near a queer dance party on Harvard’s campus. Any one of the hundreds of queer and non-queer students who attended the dance could have been the victim. It is simply unfathomable how Hastrup can label this crime as an isolated occurrence...
...wither away.” This idea is based on the erroneous assumption that discrimination against minorities is no longer commonplace. More dangerously, it advocates that, in response to actions that aim to silence and stigmatize, minority communities should be submissively silent in the face of these incidents. If Hastrup believes that hate crimes hurt entire communities, then these communities should not be criticized for coming together to console their members and to raise public awareness that violence and harassment are not just in the past...