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...around and wiping up." She comments also that "it gets rid of a lot of the social fluff that goes on in Houses and can make you feel really lonely." The small kitchen table is certainly a far cry from the melee of house dining halls, which few residents seem to miss. For the most part, they consider themselves dissatisfied with Harvard in one way or another, feeling like the administration focuses far more on money than ethics or rights. Katharina A. Gibson `99 describes the majority of the student population as "self-absorbed pre-professionals." She and Morrel-Samuels...
Ordinary House-dwellers seem to have only a limited conception of what the Dudley Co-op is really like. When asked his opinion of the Unofficial Guide's description of his home as a possible "den of militant lesbians" or "drugged-out long-haired Red subversives," Marcus Wohlsen '98 simply shrugs, "It's mostly indicative of how different the ethos here is than the typical Harvard ethos--a certain lack of subtlety and sensitivity that shows how out of touch Harvard is with anything vaguely counter-cultural...
Students overall don't seem to have a plan to quit. Some, like Burns, claim "I don't have a plan; plans to quit never work." Others, like Gregory L. Hart '01, use the common "cut back" method. Hart says, "I'm in the process of quitting. I've gone from a pack-a-day to half a pack to a quarter of a pack a day. I'll have quit by summer." His friend expresses absolute confidence in this plan. "I'll quit when I want to quit," he defensively adds...
However, this encouragement often seems superficial. As we watch scores of women and even some of our friends pass by our posters without even a glance, we sense their skepticism about our decision to devote so much time and energy to these crunchy, outdated feminist causes. Many students at Harvard-Radcliffe seem to believe that the women's liberation movement has run its course and that the struggles of women are no longer relevant to their lives. Sometimes, after lengthy budget negotiations, scrambles for room assignments and 8 a.m. poster runs, we even wonder the same thing. There are moments...
These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...