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Your article on Howard Dean’s speech at Harvard Law School this weekend (“Press Barred at Howard Dean Talk,” news, Mar. 20) missed the fact that Dean’s speech was only a small part of a much more significant event that occurred at HLS this weekend: the founding of a new national organization of Democratic law students. Dean spoke during a three-day conference featuring more than twenty presenters and attended by over 100 law students from more than thirty law schools. The conference kicked off the National Democratic...
...conflating depression with angst in her comment “Depressed?” (Mar. 20), Lucy Caldwell told Harvard students dealing with depression that they should relish their misery and use it productively. This is akin to telling someone with a severely debilitating medical condition to enjoy it, because lots of people do their best work when sick...
...editors: In your report on the March 7th meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) (“Tensions Linger at Closed FAS meeting,” news, Mar. 8), you quote Professor Diana L. Eck to the effect that “Wisse’s remarks ‘don’t make much of an impression on the Faculty’ because of their ‘extreme nature.’” This, in a nutshell, is the tactic of political correctness, never to confront the content of a divergent opinion...
...editors: Your recent editorial (“Exempting the Church,” Mar. 14) made an excellent point: in the ongoing “clash of values” between Massachusetts and the Catholic Church over adoption by gays and lesbians: the interests of the State’s vulnerable children in need of adoption—the silent third party to this feud—should not be overlooked. Nevertheless, I write to point out a course of action the piece’s authors overlooked—one that would allow the state to avoid this dilemma...
...editors: Re: “Et Tu History,” editorial, Mar. 10. As one of those who teach History 10a, “Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From Antiquity to 1650,” I was heartened to see the opinion piece published today. I agree with most of its statements. History 10a does, indeed, offer history concentrators a comprehensive and continuous discussion of the evolution of western societies until the time of the scientific revolution. Many of our students have never had this type of course; many enjoy it a great deal. I agree, too, that...