Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house master to be so callously judgemental is a travesty. Who is Master Pfister--or North House Master J. Woodland Hastings or any other Harvard official--to decide what is garbage and what is not? The simple truth of the matter is that members of the Harvard community are being denied the right to speak out in a manner which they find effective...
Hastings says that the policy is just temporary, until he can get wire baskets installed on the North House doors. In the case of the Yard, this has proved to be a reasonable compromise toward keeping litter separate from reading matter...
...wire baskets will solve the problem, why don't the house masters simply install them? The litter problem, if one really exists, has been around for years. The halls will endure for the few weeks necessary to install the baskets. For that matter, if litter is such a problem, why weren't they installed over the summer? Kirkland already has such baskets--why do they need a ban on door drops...
Despite the subject matter, the legalese is not too confusing, however. Novick, a professor of law at the University of Vermont, does his best to explain in human terms the theories behind the decisions and their significance. And the author's characterizations of the other justices and his descriptions of way the Court made its decisions will be enough to hold the interest of those who are still not consumed by legal theories...
...newly-arrived student, I chose almost immediately not to report the incident. It certainly served, though, to dispel any assumptions that I'd been under of Harvard's being solely a place of enlightened beings. Although he did apologize later, the student had quickly displayed his readiness--no matter how irrational--to take out his frustrations on someone different from himself...