Word: mattering
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...reminded that this medium is by nature carnivorous, and getting faster and more unfeeling with each passing news cycle. It’s up to us—and the other campus blogs, more of which launch every day—to insist on standards, no matter how sophomoric the subject matter. To give fair comment to the people we write about. To respect Google’s lidless eye. To bear in mind our own college screw-ups as we castigate others...
...When one produces a good photograph do you receive credit for that or is it a matter of chance?” he says...
...know how the Summers saga ends—badly, following the unforgivable suggestion that biological differences arising from one’s sex might matter in human cognition. He sealed his fate not even by positing a controversial belief, but by his mere suggestion that it could be the case—and no matter that his actions spoke loud, that he did more than anyone, for instance, to make a Harvard education affordable to poor and middle-income families. Summers was punished for doing what, in the best of worlds, intellectuals would do more often: taking advantage...
...well-traveled journalist also stressed to the audience that international excursions were “not just a matter of doing good abroad...you also really do benefit enormously yourself...
...presided over by an illustrious Harvard alumna or in a crowd of 400 wordlessly absorbing the visionary truths of filmmaker Byron Hurt. These events, and many others made our first year exciting, interesting, sometimes controversial, and never dull. The HCWC will continue to be responsive to the issues that matter to students, and it will continue to keep its ear to the ground for the sound of future progress...