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...students to litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
...time--it's completely futile." That's the same attitudes society in general has to take towards sporadic signs of sickess. Common sense is one thing, but over-concern over such things as Halloween candy can lead to unwarranted paralysis. If the sense of communal anxiety that overlook much of America last Sunday continues' to grow--who knows?--may be people will stop buying food altogether...
...know how easy it is to overlook the persecution of others when your own rights and freedoms are not in jeopardy. I grew up in south Georgia within a legally segregated society, and to the extent that I or my elders felt any responsibility at all for the status of my black playmates, the "separate but equal" ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed sufficient. As a child, I rode a bus to school each day with the other white students, while the black children walked, and never gave a thought to the lack of equality inherent in the separateness...
...closed down spring after spring as students went on strike, occupied buildings, marched for peace, revolution, better treatment for local tenants and any number of other causes. This Harvard allowed little time for gentility or even excellence. "There was an element of uncertainty and disorientation that is easy so overlook, now that we all know how things turned out." James Fallows '70 remembers. "My own sense was of being on a gyre of history whose final resting point no one could safety predict." Clubs, mixers, even sports verged on the irrelevant one memorable spring, the sports staff of The Crimson...
Vujovic was upset by the "jock image" attached to all athletes. "A lot of soccer players at Harvard wanted to give up soccer this year," he said at the time. "People tend to overlook that you have other talents and interests. [Foreign players] are proud--something like this insults them. In Europe sport is considered an art. Here people just look at you as a soccer player...