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...little nests of selfish indifference.” The editor in chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, wrote in the magazine that an “alliance of frightened souls and hyped-up orators” chased Summers out. The most visible rebuke came on the Op-Ed page of Saturday’s New York Times. Columnist John Tierney cast Summers as a victim of professors with “delicate psyches” who are “accustomed to teaching whatever’s in their latest book.” Frustrated by these and other...
Several weeks ago, a comment appeared on this page attacking the president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). The writer, Sahil K. Mahtani ’08, objected to an e-mail the president—identified only as W, though anybody who follows campus politics would have recognized the reference to Stephen E. Dewey ’07—had sent to an open list. The e-mail condemned the “queer movement,” claiming that its ultimate goal was a “man-animal BDSM orgy in Copley square...
Generally, it’s hard to mistake the Crimson’s music page for the Billboard chart. In the past year we have spent more words on art-house one-time band-of-the-moment Lightning Bolt than on double platinum success Carrie Underwood. What explains this? The snobbery of music writers? The difficulty in getting promo copies of albums from piracy-paranoid major labels? The desire to inform our readership about new and artistically interesting music? Whatever the case, we don’t write much on what’s on the radio. To reverse this...
...both of those searches, this page lamented the outright neglect for creating an inclusive process. We hope our call is heard this time around...
Finally and most importantly, a faculty senate would only further retard progress at Harvard. On this page and on campus, a consensus has developed that if Harvard is to maintain its preeminence in academia, it must institute broad, progressive changes, something that has proven to be very difficult at an institution with a tremendous amount of inertia, history, and tradition. A University senate with more than symbolic power would only be an impediment to progress, slowing down the implementation of important decisions so they can be discussed at length by faculty members with already busy schedules—and that...