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...Anti-Social Behavior" (Opinion, Nov. 4): I was struck by Jonathan Jacoby's comment "many at Harvard...are (mis)guided in their so called career pursuits by the primary intension of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth." As I understand his somewhat polemical writing students at Harvard who are going through recruiting are at fault because they take jobs largely based on the financial rewards of their work...
...cannot shirk my lingering suspicion that many at Harvard--those with the power to apply their talents to healing the world's many pathologies--are (mis) guided in their so-called "career" pursuits by the primary intention of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth. Why is this misguided, if not morally grotesque? Because it represents a conscious decision to operate under the constraints of the profit motive, which is--by its very nature--socially irresponsible. The primary intention is always to maximize private gain--to conceive of the world selfishly, as if there were no "incentive" to look out for fellow human...
Students are quick to note instances when their mail has been delayed or mis-delivered, but HUMS Manager Ursula J. Moore says her organization has relatively little to do with the actual delivery of students' personal mail. That' the realm of the local post office, which delivers mail to the Houses where it is sorted by House employees (often fellow students...
From Peter S. Manasantivongs '99: "The Crimson misquotes people so often that I am wary of giving them quotes except on paper." Supplementing his concern, other complaints about mis-spellings, mis-namings, mis-clue-ing on the cross-word--and recently, a mis-labeling of a picture of Pforzheimer as "Cabot House"--got me thinking that there's at least the occasional expected slip-up in reporting and editing standards. Pavninder Singh '98 of Lowell House, in a complaint echoed by many Quadlings, said, "My main problem with the paper is that I don't get it every day." Well...
Netscape's popularity among users won't mean much if MIS staffers can put an integrated, easily set-up software bundle which includes Windows, Office and IE on all computers...