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Second, Mulkerin's belief that allowing first-year students into a dining hall destroys house morale is off base. As first-years, we have many of the same concerns as our upperclass friends. Caricaturing us as "whining about Expos and the QRR" presents a shallow representation of first-years. We take the same courses as upperclassmen; we participate in the same extracurriculars. When we eat at Currier House, the dining hall is at lest half-empty. We are not barging in and sitting between a group of seniors debating their theses...
...policy simply isn't fair. While Harvard places interhouse restrictions on a number of other dining halls, they apply to all non-residents of the house in question, not just those who got thrown head-first into the shallow end of the freshman housing pool. Consider the fact that a first-year from Weld could eat at all of the three Quad houses with all of her friends, while a 29G resident has to eat at a randomly assigned house with randomly assigned people. And they say lightning never strikes twice...
...makes one wonder if the author attended the Mansfield-Sullivan debate on which his article was based. He attempts to divorce debating skill from argumentation, claiming that, despite "Sullivan's obvious superiority in debate," Mansfield's points were at least equally sound. Furthermore, he chastises Harvard students for their "shallow" reaction to the event, since Sullivan was deemed the victor more for style than for substance...
Despite this slightly sappy plotline, Glenn Kessler is convincing as Sidney, the clownish con-man who is "tired of making other people happy." His delivery is energetic and humorous, and his joking, "aim to please Sid Freeze" mode is wonderfully shallow. While Todd Kessler trods some familiar ground in his choice of characters--he mocks yuppie stereotypes throughout the play--he provides some imaginative, funny material nonetheless. Sidney subscribes to his therapist's theory of "Rosenblatt reality" in which thinking oneself at a place is equated to being there, and Rose's first reaction to Sidney's proclamation that...
While the response has generally left something to be desired, there was nothing shallow about the debate itself, an examination of the moral, philosophical and legal issues surrounding homosexuality. The event, which took place in the Moral Reasoning class "Justice," between Professor Harvey Mansfield and Sullivan of The New Republic was unquestionably Harvard at its best. In an age of political correctness and shrill campus protests, it's heartening to see a quality debate on such an emotional issue...