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Provide the masses with entertainment, and they will lead content lives. The notion is as true today as it was in Roman times, and we are pleased to see that the Undergraduate Council is providing entertainment to the Harvard masses. The ancient Greeks had theater and the Romans had chariot races, but here in the land of Edison, Americans have movies. Panem et circenses (bread and circuses) has become “popcorn and movies...
...offended by if the same kind of simple-minded stereotypes were applied to people of a particular race or religion or what-have-you. For shame. Everyone knows that the South is where America keeps its imbeciles. I suppose the Midwest receives a lot of flak because of the notion that its inhabitants are close minded. What irony! The people who dis my homies from the Great Plains are the close minded ones. They claim to be cultured because they have studied abroad in Italy for a semester, but they neglect to accept that the Midwest has anything to offer...
While Harvard students tend to steer clear of overtly racist remarks, it is not uncommon to hear jokes rich in perpetration of Asian-American stereotypes. These usually revolve around the notion that Asian students are bookish and nerdy, to the extent that they don’t enjoy or understand non-academic activities, especially sports. I should know these jokes, because I am definitely guilty of making them, and so are Asian students themselves...
Some argue that it is important to preserve the sanctity of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. But the notion of preserving this traditional view of marriage—for the sake of custom—is far less important than preserving the equal rights and opportunities guaranteed to all people under the Constitution. With 4,400 out-of-state couples having already made the trek to Vermont to obtain civil unions, it is clear there is a pressing need to alter our legal interpretations in accord with our changing social customs...
...their own. Fortunately, most students who fiercely disagree with HRL have already taken this sensible route, retaliating with their own opinions through all outlets of Harvard’s marketplace of ideas. Although the council’s resolution is not without flaws, it nonetheless reaffirms this notion of free expression—a worthy position whatever the circumstance...