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Four years post-randomization, undergraduate life at Harvard is at a turning point. As Houses move further away from their former "personalities," students are becoming less interested in participating in House events. Social life for many students is moving off-campus, and a House-centered social system is seriously threatened. Undergraduates spend increasing amounts of time in extracurricular organizations, yet student groups are severely under-funded and must fight with Extension School classes for precious meeting and performing space. I believe that the problems of both student groups and the Houses can be alleviated through a mutually beneficial system...
Steps must be taken to ensure that Houses remain central to undergraduate social life. Despite popular opinion, Harvard students are not inherently asocial. Popular House events like the Leverett House Eighties Dance and the Adams House Masquerade (from which hundreds of students had to be turned away) prove that students will flock to social events if given the opportunity. More large, campus-wide House events are necessary to satisfy student desire and to bring the campus community together...
Panelist James Caroll, an author and former chaplain at Boston University, said he disagreed that spiritual people need religion to live a humane and fulfilling life. He used the example of his two children, both of whom had decided to stop attending church...
This sounds very similiar to the South African government's justification for keeping black students out of white apartheid institutions. Bill Gates was a bad student--he never even finished school. In fact even Einstein, one of the smartest men, was a bad student at one time during his life. But does this make them stupid...
...look forward to a time when the conditions of life in our world will not be determined by secret meetings in the corporate interest, but by considerations for human needs and political rights...