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...discriminatory manner; all religious denominations who request space or funds should be treated equally, though the grants themselves should be in proportion to the scale of the ceremony. Additionally, the ceremonies, serving as they do not just co-religionists but the house community, should attempt to teach ritual and meaning...
...would no longer be allowed. A rash of fires had damaged University property and had put other students at risk. The proposed change, however, provides that a public space, like a Junior Common Room or a dining hall, be set aside for Jewish students to perform the candle lighting ritual...
Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
...have taught them what is the best kind of sandpaper to keep their uniform brass tarnish free, the most effective bug repellent (knobs are not permitted to scratch in public), the most reliable alarm clocks and the most durable T shirts. They will also be mentally prepared for the ritual hazing, designed to remind cadets that the military has no room for free spirits. As Henry Woods, class of '67, told an incoming group recently, "Remember, once you enter the Citadel you are the same. You should not stand...
...event leaves the rest of us in a state of unease and vulnerability. The flight attendant still instructs us to fasten our seat belts and to bring our seat backs and tray tables to an upright position before takeoff--all the irritating in-flight punctilio, with its bloodless ritual language--but as we strap ourselves in, our minds are projecting fireballs, and calculating odds, and trying to calm themselves more urgently than before. The worst part of jet travel is our eggs-in-a-carton passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves...