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Although you acknowledge that the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy was enacted by Congress, you make an unsupported leap of logic when you state that it justifies “banning military recruiters from campus.” “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is a Congressional act that the military cannot overrule. If you are serious, you should call for a ban on visits from members of Congress and former President Bill Clinton, who introduced the policy...
...center in 2004—riding on the coattails of Larry Summers’ consequence-rich gaffe, which the group claimed was merely the exposed tip of his “anti-woman-agenda” iceberg—their justification seemed an about-face in logic...
...told by deans, the center’s director, and its paid interns alike, the logic goes something like this: Students have been advocating for the center for 30 years, and there must be a reason for that, no? And when pressed for specifics—Well, just look at the imbalance between men and women on the Undergraduate Council...
...become so furious? And what are we so mad at?It could just be the alcohol. Rage denotes drink and drinking portends problems. Doesn’t being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we’re angry because we drink, too much. But “rage” isn’t just showing up after scorpion bowls and beer kegs. Road rage plagues the highway and air rage is only the latest response to tightened regulations aboard mid-air flights...
...supposed to be idealistic, but too many Harvard students limit themselves to a “realistic” alternative that they don’t even understand. Too many of us define our ideals around ourselves and too few of us define ourselves around ideals.The compromise logic assumes that the only way to make a change, to contribute in this world, is to be on top. Fortunately, the world isn’t only about the elite; I can sit at the Institute of Politics all day long shaking the hands of politicians, dignitaries and world leaders, but it?...