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...Though compelling, the panel's conclusion is not obvious, and the full court to which the Administration has appealed may disagree (as might the U.S. Supreme Court, if it ever hears the case). The Administration, then, can't necessarily be blamed for trying to treat al-Marri as an enemy combatant so that it could detain him indefinitely and prevent him from rejoining the enemy during the war on terror, right? Except that's apparently not what the Administration...
...changes I found are, for the most part, good, but some were initially disconcerting. Let me begin with the obvious: My house is gone. When I first returned to Harvard, I would tell undergraduates that I had lived in “South House.” I was most often met with a polite but pitying nod suggesting they thought I had an active fantasy life. Some junior historian types were aware that the Quad used to be different, but few had more than a misty notion that it used to have something to do with girls. I soon...
Some part of the solution to these worries is obvious. Harvard University needs more black faculty, administrators, police officers, security guards, staff, and students, so that the 13 percent of the American universe that is black can become less of a supercharged symbol in other people’s inflated self-estimations and more a range of human beings with diverse talents and ways of making the world a better place. The other concrete need is for the entire University community to recognize that the world is not color-blind, and that a careful, self-conscious, and hyper-cautious level...
...policy is fundamentally misdirected and might prove to be ineffective or harmful. The report of the Committee on Social Clubs reveals the skewed logic and justification behind their recommendations. Reading the policy between the lines yields one very obvious goal: The College is trying to crack down on hazing and final clubs. This is made obvious by the inclusion of “unrecognized” student groups. Final clubs—which are unrecognized by the College because they are single-sex—are Harvard’s social powerhouses and traditionally involve heavy drinking during their...
Before we all salute Captain Obvious, it’s worth pausing and wondering how on earth the College plans to enforce such a policy. Considering how prominent final clubs are on campus, their leadership and inner goings-on are notoriously secret. In my research, I e-mailed four current or former “punchmasters” of different final clubs asking for comment and received no replies, indicating that the notorious “gag order” on final club officers talking to the press might actually be as much fact as fiction. The Committee report itself...