Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself. One should not, and does not, have to locate his thinking on our political spectrum to make him interesting. But students in Justice are required to pluck Kant from the clouds, fumble with him in their untutored hands and mold him to a present-day problem--like smashing a butterfly between one's fingers in order to admire its wings. Such familiarity breeds, if not contempt, at least a false and dangerous sense of intimacy...
...destroyed everything; but how is everyone to notice? You would have to crush it to bits before their eyes to make it tangible to them!" Or the 19 year-old Marx who, upon reading Hegel, wrote to his father, "There are moments in one's life which are like frontier posts marking the completion of a period but at the same time indicating a new direction." Or John Stuart Mill whose intellectual crisis at age 20 led to mental breakdown--would that Core courses made Harvard students prone to similar breakdowns...
...multiracial or biracial students' organizations at Harvard, these students are left searching for a place to fit in. If they want to get involved with an ethnic organization, they must choose which aspect of their heritage to identify with. It is appalling that in a diverse college community like Harvard, a multi-ethnic identity is not given sufficient recognition by the student body and the administration...
These are the 21 things I would like for Christmas...
Emerging organizations such as HAPA are definitely a step in the right direction. Hopefully, more student organizations like it will develop sometime in the near future and fill a long-empty void in the College. Permitting applicants to identify with more than one racial group, instead of the "other" category, is perhaps the first step the University can take to create a more welcoming atmosphere for multiracial and biracial students. Students need to be encouraged to embrace all the separate and beautiful components of their heritage, instead of being subtly yet forcibly limited to just...