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Exceptional circumstances brought these students to Harvard and, given this extraordinary situation, the University should not feel bound by rigid adherence to typical admission rules. These students are not the property of their original universities, to be shipped away on the next flight back to New Orleans; rather, they are important members of our community. Allowing them to apply to transfer will benefit everyone. After all, the original agreement to take these students was not made to help Tulane and Loyola, it was made to help the students themselves. We shouldn’t turn our backs on them...
...core of France’s lacking economic performance are a high tax burden, a large public service sector, and a rigid economy that is held down by powerful unions and restrictive legislation. Together, the distorted incentives produced by such a system account for the fact that the total number of work hours is only one half of what it would have been if all working-age French were employed. In contrast the labor supply ratio in the U.S. is 20 percent higher, indicating the sharp advantage the American economy has when it comes to its worker productivity...
...religious groups, which take their spiritual missions seriously, have no place on a campus dedicated to being as inclusive and pluralistic as possible. In reality, the fact that the AACF discriminates on the basis of religion is quite ancillary to our argument. We merely believe that any overt and rigid requirements alienating a portion of the student body should not be condoned by funding derived from the entire undergraduate population. After all, even the most culturally-specific groups on campus have members that do not fit the groups’ standard profiles. It is vital that the UC not give...
...since they named a pastry after Napoleon has anything so delicious seemed so dictatorial. Mouth-watering aromas mix with despotism at La Crêperie on Mass Ave., where customers who do not follow rigid guidelines face an unwelcome (and hungry) fate. Is this Harvard’s very own Crêpe Nazi...
...burritos outside its doors at 2:15 am, in violation of its current permit. Furthermore, landlord John DiGiovanni is also unwilling, according to Felipe’s owners, to allow the restaurant to stay open later. What the CLC has neglected to consider, however, sheds light on a puzzlingly rigid viewpoint. Often, Felipe’s has more customers at 2 a.m. than at midnight; when it closes its doors, students sometimes actually bang on the restaurant’s windowpanes until an employee furtively smuggles out a few quesadillas. And who can blame them for trying to satisfy...