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...editors: Re “President Romney?” news, Dec 16: Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s announcement not to seek re-election because he had accomplished what he promised is preposterous. Let??s face facts: Gov. Romney is an ambitious man with a mixed record of political achievement who knows he is unlikely to win another statewide election which would scuttle his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Despite three years on Beacon Hill, the governor remains a shrewd businessman and remembers how to hedge his bets. The governor?...
...dangerous tasks every day—without thinking twice about the risks involved. We like to think that the tragedies we witness on the news take place in a separate realm of existence, far from the impressive Ivory Tower and the invincible Harvard student. But in this new year, let??s remember that even in our seemingly impregnable world of airbags and antibacterial soap, planes malfunction, cars crash, and silent epidemics propagate in the most unsuspecting populations. Even though we tend to take it for granted, life is in the often tremulous hands of the force of nature...
...College allocated $20,000 to each House for gym renovations from the discretionary budget. Why don’t we use a little bit of next year’s discretionary budget to install this convenient technology? In Lowell House there are about 18 entryways. For good measure, let??s say that with the library, dining hall, and basement entrances, there are 30 “swipe-points” currently in Lowell. At $175 per reader it would still only cost $5,250 to buy proximity card readers for all of Lowell. And Lowell...
...look desperate for an audience, as though it were the students doing him a favor in attending his lecture. This unfortunate approach compromises the essential teacher-student dynamic. If teachers feel indebted to their students for attending lecture, then students will feel a complementary sense of entitlement. Yet, let??s all put education in perspective: students pay to attain knowledge that is priceless in and of itself. This is the only financial incentive that should compel students to attend lectures...
...Let??s not stand for it.Peter C.D. Mulcahy ’07, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a government concentrator in Cabot House...