Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inboxes of Harvard first-years last week contained two mass e-mail messages about this holiday season. One, from the Freshman Dean's Office, reminded us that we are not allowed to light Hannukah menorahs anywhere in the dorms except at specially authorized Hillel candle-lighting ceremonies in common rooms. The other, from the dorms manager, listed regulations for Christmas trees, Christmas lights and other seasonal decorations...
...prevention, no-candles policy applied to all Harvard housing. Yet, if you turn on a television or open up a family magazine in December, the newscasts and articles aren't warning people about the dangers of menorahs. Instead they are warning people about the dangers of Christmas trees and lights--how they so often are the cause of disastrous fires. Even the e-mail to first-years stated that Christmas trees dry out very quickly and create a major fire hazard to all residents of a building. So, why does the College permit students to string electrical wires around windows...
...concerned about fires, then both menorahs and Christmas trees should be banned from individual rooms. As matters stand, however, Harvard is hypocritical when it encourages us to open our minds to the diversity around us, because it refuses to do the same. Instead, it unevenly limits celebrations of light in this holiday season...
...year ago, in this same space, I wrote a light-hearted piece about being a fire buff. An interlocuter wrote back to The Crimson that I overstated the job's romance and understated the danger. He was right...
...David Horowitz's "Cornel West: No Light in his Attic" appeared in the Oct. 11, 1999 issue of online magazine Salon (reprinted in the Harvard Salient earlier this fall). In the article, Horowitz lambasts West for what Horowitz sees as his intellectual emptiness and pretension: "While his writings combine the philosophically grandiose with postmodern frou frou, they are singularly lacking in the intellectual power that would sustain either." Horowitz moves from a questionable attack on West's intellect to a ludicrous charge of racism and anti-Semitism. He strikes at the very root of the Reader by ridiculing West...