Word: objectional
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...peer institutions, are not only too extreme a measure, but also undermine the ultimate goal of such initiatives. Our endorsement of the UMRP’s efforts stems from the belief that Harvard is strengthened by having a diverse and integrated student body. As such, we object to any program that creates or tacitly endorses divisions within the student body. Separate prefrosh weekends tacitly endorse, if not create, division within the student body and mislead incoming students about the nature of the broader community. They falsely assume that minority students will feel comfortable only in their ethnic communities. Ultimately...
...principle, I don't object to replacing arbitrary age minimums with competency tests that judge people as individuals. But in practice, who will administer these tests? A judge? A bureaucrat? Epstein never spells this out, although he says psychologists could easily design the tests. Still, I can't imagine why society would waste time letting an 11-year-old apply to be able to drink martinis or have sex or serve in the military. Perhaps a tiny number of children are mature enough for such adult pursuits, but why set up a system to find them? Epstein says the teen...
...toner cartridge for an obsolete printer, that last informational nugget for a research project or a flight status on a stormy day in Denver. But sometimes, when we're alone with our computers, perhaps late at night, a search page can double as our therapist or confidant, an inanimate object capable of answering questions about our darkest fears...
...taste shift," says Zemaitis. "People in their 30s and 40s who are doing most of the buying don't want to collect the way their parents did, collecting every piece of Rookwood pottery and putting it in a display case. This generation puts less emphasis on the decorative object and more emphasis on furniture. I call it the Wallpaper generation...
...contemporary design. "If you've seriously been collecting art for 25 years and you've got all the best pieces of the artists you collect, and you're ready to retire, then you're going to build your own personal museum," he explains. And in that "museum," the object you sit on has to be as important as the art on the walls. Meyers estimates that 90% of the people collecting design are contemporary-art collectors. "The art world is eating us up," he says. "Marc Newson didn't go to Gagosian and say, 'Give me a show.'" Zemaitis also...