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...were pounding hamburgers at the House of Beef, Ricky was writing his college entrance essay in support of keeping the House of Lords. Ricky's fanaticism started in the fourth grade when an English transfer student offered him a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the playground. Since then it has been a downward spiral into the bowels of English culture. Yet the freshman declined to study in England in lieu of the lesser Cambridge School, Harvard...
...Kyriell Muhammad, a doctoral student in religion and a tutor in Mather House, is packing his bags and heading for the coast--without his degree. After a semester of anti-gay harassment in the house that was for years the University's jock playground, the BGLTSA advisor decided to call it quits, even as house members rallied to show their support. For many on campus, his is a testament to the latent bigotry that persists even where political correctness is considered the law of the land. For others, Muhammad's example shows just how rare anti-gay acts have become...
...dorm room window overlooks the Peabody School playground. It's a pretty crummy playground. The swings squeak and the wooden fort-thingy is starting to grow moldy. But I don't watch the playground. What I watch is the hordes of crazy screaming kids who stream into the playground every weekday morning and afternoon during recess. Mostly, they just run around and try to hit each other with foam balls. For them, life is good...
...concept of recess is antithetical to Harvard. Recess, by definition, is unstructured and freewheeling. Harvard life, by contrast, is one scheduled meeting after another. We meet for class, meet for clubs, meet for lunch, meet to practice and meet to talk about our meetings. Bring a PalmPilot to the playground and all the other kids will turn to you to throw their foam balls...
Until then, I will be watching the kids on the crummy playground outside my window...