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...unchecked expression of impulses that arose by natural selection. During evolution, individuals with strong innate yearnings for food, sex and material goods did a better job of surviving and reproducing than individuals less drawn to these things. So we inherited genes conducive to such yearnings. In the same manner, anger (another of the deadly sins) became a naturally engrained tool of survival, aimed, for example, at those who would take our food or our mates...
...this point, at least one reader is bound to be screaming that I have justified discrimination based on racial or ethnic characteristics. If a house's members can exclude someone because they dislike his manner, why can't they also exclude him because they dislike his religion or skin color? The answer to this is the logical converse to the point I made in the previous paragraph. While it is moral for an organization to exclude based on characteristics that affect its mission, it is immoral to exclude based on characteristics that are irrelevant. Hence Harvard's non-discrimination code...
...contract offered current workers few advantages and cuts vacation time and sick pay. Wages are frozen for the first 20 months of its duration, and the contract also slashed the pay scales for new employees. But the most serious problem with this contract is not its terms but the manner in which it was approved. Several workers have said that union members had no input in the negotiations with the University. They have also claimed that they were only given 45 minutes to read and discuss a four-page summary of the contract before they were forced to vote...
...their wishes and allow them to learn of the University's proposed terms of employment well before they have to vote on a contract. Even if Local 254 does not sign a substantially improved agreement, at least the contract will have been approved in a fair and open manner...
...situation here at Harvard is a good example of the manner in which Latinos are ignored. We are not heard in the symphony of "Harvard diversity." For example, a recent statistics project covered by The Crimson, which made an attempt to determine the racial breakdown of Harvard housing, disregarded Latinos; this adds to our invisibility on campus. Lack of institutional support leads to an environment where students on campus do not even remember us when it comes time to study the effects of randomization on the racial balance in the Harvard houses...