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Furthermore, the letter writers’ claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people...
...This, naturally, is all Harvard’s fault. And it’s got some alumni in a tizzy. In an open letter this week to University President Drew G. Faust, 13 (13!) members of the class of 1967 expressed their (moderate) disappointment at “the apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body...
...Class of 1967’s open letter tongue-bathes our president as having “brought a breath of fresh air to the University.” She has, indeed. A breath of fresh, sickly sweet, cotton-candy scented air that’s beginning to turn the dourest place on earth into a lavender plantation. It’s a rainbow-riffic new era—who wants red brick when you can have gingerbread instead...
...intends to run a university that educates engaged student-citizens, making students feel good about themselves is no way to do it. Just look at the Class of 1967’s letter-writers; nothing would make that brash baker’s dozen happier than if we were all as pissed off as they are. The United States is occupying Iraq! Civilians are being killed! Iran is next! The NSA is listening! Our rights are being jeopardized! And you’re appointing a Task Force on the Arts...
...Monday, a University spokesman told The Crimson that President Faust had not read the Class of 1967’s letter. What a shocker...