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...there will likely be more students eating in Lamont than in Leverett. So if the problem is clear and the solution readily apparent, why the hesitation? Change costs money. It would be naïve to continue searching for a miraculous, cost-free, panacea for dining hall insolvency. The logic is fairly simple: If dining halls are to be open later, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) will require more funding. And that’s exactly what they should get. Budgeting is about determining what priorities need attention, and dining hall hours have been a thorn in the side...
Compelling though this logic is, there’s one small place where the analogy falters: Lincoln was one of the most divisive and opinionated candidates ever elected. He had a rock-solid stance against slavery, and when he called on mending the “house divided,” he did not propose to do so with flowering rhetoric and vague promises of cooperation, but rather by ending the spread of slavery. Consensus builder? Half of the country seceded when the man was elected. This was a leader who knew that the only way to truly mend...
Christopher Lacaria’s column, “The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” (Feb. 14) is no small feat: it lacks as much in sound argument and logic as it does in politeness...
...address his disregard for logic. Lacaria argues that because there was no radical feminism in the 19th century South, there could not have been problems of gender. This argument only needs to be written explicitly to expose its incoherence. More importantly, however, gender was a crucial part of how people, especially Southern male politicians, understood the political climate of antebellum America...
...wait? Because you’re worth it.” While I don’t actually mind being “alone” this time of year, the group roused me to actually care on Valentine’s Day because of its faulty logic, sexism, and misleadingly innocuous method...