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...told the applicant in question “yes”—“enter to grow in insouciance.” According to a heedless survey of less than four of my classmates, this was a grievous error. For these few, Harvard is still less “chill” than it is poor or populistic. Many may submit that, more than anything else, Harvard is defined by its lack of perspective on the simple pleasures, its utter divorce in stress and striving from the Frisbee-hurling good nature that has come to epitomize other...
...participants will only enhance the insights and experiences which they bring back to campus and share with their peers. Yet, while the bridge year program shows great promise, we worry that an overly institutionalized and professionally organized gap year may offer students less growth. Individual initiative, spontaneous travel, and heedless soul-searching are what make this time off before college so valuable and unique to each student who partakes. By potentially transforming the gap year into another box to check on the road to a successful career, Princeton’s program may jeopardize the ability of students to shape...
...reinforced the mandate of international jihad. Indeed, according to MIPT data, acts of jihadist terrorism on Western citizens and interests outside of Afghanistan and Iraq have risen by 25 percent since the invasion—a statistic that provides compelling evidence for correlation between America’s heedless interventionism and the recent boom in global terrorism...
Surely, America must work to dismantle the al-Qaeda terrorist network worldwide. More importantly, though, it must avoid creating new terrorist enemies and exacerbating already fierce hatred of the United States. An understanding of what motivates terrorists to attack us, and a recognition of the links between our heedless interventionism and the upsurge of terrorism, are crucial components of a successful American foreign policy...
...Citizens of our democracy expect (and deserve) other guarantees from their government, such as public education, health care, and Social Security—all of which are currently floundering. The aim of the American military should be to protect its citizens affordably and effectively, not to participate in a heedless, lonely chase for global supremacy. Courtney A. Fiske ’11, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Wigglesworth Hall