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Moreover, Hoxby seems to have diminished the role she was supposed to play in the HCECP. She accuses the committee’s membership of lacking balance since its very inception: “It contains several people who have an explicit pro-living wage agenda and it contains no one with an opposing agenda.” A curious locution. Who, if not Hoxby, opposes the progressive economics of a living wage at Harvard? As a conservative economist who does not otherwise hide her criticism of unions in her scholarship on school choice and who clearly wants a chorus...
...felt that a large cross-section of our membership would like to donate to the American Red Cross Relief Fund,” he said...
...understandable for Harvard to want student groups to be open to all students, and the above groups could provide good reasons for their exclusive policies. But once explicitly social groups such as the Pudding are countenanced—once their membership criteria are recognized, in practice if not in theory, as acceptable—it becomes very difficult for the College to prohibit discrimination based on any reason at all. Harvard can certainly take a stand against unreasoned restrictions that denigrate others’ personal worth, or against discrimination based on a flawed stereotype (such as if the math club...
...rationale for wanting the final clubs to change—that discrimination is bad, period—is one that not even the College accepts. There are other reasons for wanting final clubs to accept women. By receiving women as guests only, by depriving them of the benefits of membership, by creating an boys-only environment that encourages drunken lechery and perhaps even sexual assault—in all these ways, the arguments go, the final clubs and their influence set back the cause of women at Harvard. But in a gender-neutral age, the exclusion of women is only...
...opposition group to actually capture it. That's because the alliance is composed primarily of fighters from the Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari minorities and would be unable to create a stable government without the consent of the Pashtun, the largest of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. The Taliban's membership is exclusively Pashtun, but it is far from representative of all Pasthun, and Washington had hoped that the bombing campaign would create significant defections from within the Taliban as well as rallying other Pashtun warlords against the Taliban. (So far, there are few signs of mass defection.) But the other crucial...