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...great social projects of our generation. To combat those who believe Kennedy’s command implausible are the many who have followed his words and proved them possible. Teach for America (TFA) began as the thesis of a Princeton senior. The brainchild of a 22-year-old intent on fixing America’s educational inequity provides low-income schools with highly educated young people who are three times more effective at teaching core subjects than those who would otherwise be in their stead...
...organizations started by young social entrepreneurs that is experiencing rapid growth and tremendous success. Countless others, including Orphans Against AIDS started by a 26-year-old Harvard Business School student and Unite for Sight started by a Yale sophomore in her dorm room, are living proof that young adults intent on changing the world can have a monumental impact. These recent college graduates who serve nationally and internationally in a myriad ways are no doubt idealists, but don’t they seem to have learned from the naïveté of older generations...
...inherit the future. Recently, four Harvard undergraduates were arrested at a recruiting station in Maine for protesting the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prohibits those who “demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts” from serving. While its students are trying to change their future for the better, Harvard University claims to champion that same goal—by banning a student organization from its campus and grandstanding at its commissioning ceremony. We cannot be content...
...Kenyatta accurately expressed the group’s intent to protest Harvard’s response to the current drought in faculty diversity in his letter, but extended his critique to the professors who would be teaching the course, Julius LeVonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg. It was this latter part that would garner the group widespread negative attention...
...anticipated...that students would use this relaxation of the rules to go into competition with HSA or that the College would allow that,” said Lewis, who relaxed the rules in response to the rise of the Internet. “That was certainly not the intent to have individual students going head to head with HSA, which I always considered to be an important institution, both educationally and in terms of the money it put in students’ pockets...