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Even some first-years have tried to beat the crunch. Melissa R. Langsam '00, a Crimson editor, said when she visited Harvard as a high school senior, someone told her to make her Commencement hotel reservations well in advance--if she should decide to attend Harvard...
Melissa R. Langsam, a first-year living in Hurlbut, is a Crimson editor...
...achieve a gender quota as the staff implies. The only just way to achieve gender equity is through a College policy of recruiting talented women and men with equal vigor and evaluating applications on a gender-blind basis. --Dan S. Aibel '98 --Alex M. Carter '00 --Missy R. Langsam '00 --Noah D. Oppenheim...
Reading Melissa R. Langsam's "The Last Oppressed Minority" (Opinion, March 31), in which she wrote about friends expressing shock and even revulsion when she admitted to being a Republican led me to realize that our stereotype of conservatives as close-minded is a prejudice just as egregious as stereotyping all African-Americans as thieves or all Jews as misers. I think a large number of people, especially upon arriving at a campus as diverse as Harvard's, is overwhelmed by the realization of just how big the world is, and how many different ways there are of living...
...however, and I would assert that there are far more Republicans who are conservative from conviction--and lack any strong sentiment against people different from themselves--rather than from fear. I find racial bigotry or intolerance of alternative lifestyles offensive, but I also recognize that students such as Melissa Langsam are by no means necessarily bigots, and I think it is a shame that many Republicans suffer from the prejudices laid upon them. One of my roommates for next year is Republican to the core, but he is not conservative because of any fear of diversity, rather because...