Word: misguidedness
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However, such special treatment, which Ali so properly disdains as a demeaning practice, in fact occurs every year in admissions. Mansfield was quite right to ask Ali (in a March 12 letter) to extend his argument against special treatment in courses to the reality of the "benevolent white admissions officer...
In his letter, Prof. Mansfield presented a potentially "shocking" idea to Ali; the entire Harvard community should listen. Minority students "are being hurt more by the inept good will of whites than by lingering racism." That is the lesson I am learning every day at Harvard as racial tensions continue...
I would like to take issue with some of the statements made by Jendi B. Reiter in her column "Noble Principles, Misguided Protests" (February 16 Crimson). First is the assertion that we should accept (or at least sympathize with) the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts, the U.S. armed...
The situation was desperate. NoHo, the friendliest, most beautiful, most screne house on campus was under siege by the sad, misguided Quadlings from Cabot and Currier. It appeared that the collective pain and anguish of randomization was surging in them. Wielding snow and water balloons they advanced quickly, on nothing...
But Gates sometimes annoys me. For example, it's easy to jump on Afrocentrics, but it's Eurocentrism that's screwing up the world. Afrocentrism doesn't have the power. It would take billions of dollars and many years to do the kind of job on the American psyche that...