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...looking for opinionated, creative students to write bi-weekly columns and draw weekly political cartoons. Applications are now available at The Crimson, 14 Plympton Street, and are due at The Crimson by 5 p.m. on Feb. 2. Questions? E-mail Noah Oppenheim (noppenh@fas) or Susannah Tobin (stobin@fas), or call...
...Rankings Irrelevant" (Dissent, Dec. 16): Nobody is asking Noah Oppenheim to "kowtow to the notion that minorities can only feel comfortable in each other's company." However, he should acknowledge that many people do feel uncomfortable when surrounded by others who do not look like they do. Clearly, neither I nor Oppenheim can ever understand how it feels to be black in a white majority. But let's turn the tables: If Oppenheim were a student at Howard instead of Harvard, how comfortable would he feel...
Moreover, Oppenheim suggests that because "there was a direct relationship between a school's percentage of black students and its social rating," Harvard should discount Black Enterprise's rankings altogether. Why, then, was Stanford, which has a 5 percent black population, ranked tenth in the same Black Enterprise survey? Evidently it's not because Stanford has more black students than Harvard, whose black population is 6 percent...
Somehow, Harvard isn't doing something right. Finding out and fixing what isn't right is immensely important not only for black students, but for the entire Harvard community. The first step in the "demise of self-segregation" for which Oppenheim yearns is the discovery and resolution of the very problem he feels is "not worth our notice." Black Enterprise's rankings are very relevant. SHARON C. YANG '98 Washington...
...Noah Oppenheim ("Take Down the `Winter" Decorations," Opinion, Dec. 11) makes a point that has been raised many times before. It usually pops up in late November, when the decorations begin to appear, but by mid-December nearly everyone has forgotten about it. Why? Because as the "short, dreary, cold days and downright frigid nights" of the New England winter weigh more heavily on our spirits, people of all faiths and atheists alike realize they would rather see a cheerfully decorated holiday tree in the dining hall than nothing...