Word: partisanship
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Anthony Freinberg’s column (“Partisanship, Harvard-Style,” Oct. 18) really cheered me up. I wish he’d run for senator in my state, New York. Both Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though neither of them is running for office this year, displayed an amazing gutlessness when it came time to vote on the resolution transfering the Senate’s Constitution-given powers to declare war to the most ignorant and arrogant president we’ve seen in a while. Neither of them...
...Partisanship, Harvard-Style” (Column, Oct. 18), Anthony S. A. Freinberg ’04 criticizes the College Democrats and the Republican Club (HRC) as “intellectually lazy” for their lack of “discussions of the vital issues.” This charge is baffling given both clubs’ recent history of lively debates with each other on school choice, the living wage, the Bush tax cut and drilling in Alaska. It is baffling given the HRC’s constant writing and internal debate on our Policy Committee. It is baffling...
...HCD’s current emphasis on blind partisanship is sadly misguided. The ability to consider each issue on its merits and act accordingly has been relegated to a minor concern behind vigorous campaigning for professional politicians. A primary function of HRC and HCD should be to encourage students to confront the important political questions of the day and formulate their own opinions on them, unburdened by preconceived dogma or diatribe. Their failure to do so is a lazy intellectual cop-out. Moreover, without the emergence of individuals from colleges like Harvard who are prepared to question publicly the wisdom...
...like Kastner, was pleased to report that partisanship on campus was on the increase. Indeed, Grech launched an interesting defense of political partisanship by suggesting that it “provokes an intellectual discourse because if students always like to ride the fence, they will not engage an issue as deeply as if they picked one side and were forced to defend it.” Unfortunately for Grech’s theory, partisanship, Harvard-style, involves far more leaflet distribution than policy deliberation...
...because they are from a certain political party or are backed by a certain special interest group. In fact, the Politics Meets The Digital Generation report issued by the YVOTE2000 project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism stated our generation “exhibits less partisanship than the population as a whole...