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...streets with too many cars, drove the rents up by packing into small apartments and just generally didn’t care about our community. As students moved in, families moved out, and the neighborhood took on a transient character. “Student” sounds like an insult in my father’s mouth; he spits it out as though no further explanation were needed...
Then again, at 6’4 and 230 lbs., not too many people would insult Laborsky to his face. For that matter, few would complain to Tim Coleman, the 6’8 senior center for the men’s basketball team. But even if the condescension and cynicism aren’t actively directed at Harvard’s athletes, the attitudes are nonetheless palpable...
...point all of this out to highlight the excesses of this greedy industry and the degree to which they want to insult their customers. Until the industry delivers a model in which users pay a single subscription of $10-$20 per month for unlimited and unhindered access to music, movie and other entertainment files—a model which would still guarantee monstrous profits—I can see no moral problem with downloading files through post-Napster tools like Gnutella and Morpheus. Owners of IP must recognize that marginal pricing should only reflect marginal cost. Until then, the only...
Worse, when I tried to address Milikowsky’s concern by suggesting that we might ask for a referendum (such as the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Councils have carried out on past occasions), the principled people began to insult Harvard students to avoid hearing from them. Harvard faculty said that Harvard students were too uninformed to be listened to and that we could not possibly expect to learn anything from them. One professor argued that Harvard students should not be allowed to express their views because they were such dupes that they could be hoodwinked by any competent pollster...
Anti-gay bias in the military must stop, and I am confident that it will in our lifetime, provided the most sympathetic of us rise to top positions in the armed forces. But for Harvard to sever all ties with the military is an insult to all the good done and all the lives lost in the proud history of the institution: revolutionary soldiers fighting for democratic ideals, northern factory workers giving their lives to free black slaves, family men beating back fascism and anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. Most importantly, it insults the memory of all those who died...