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Noting that he was speaking only for himself, and not as a representative of the clubs, Sears went so far as to call Epps' report "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing...
...Epps' letter only underscores the failure of club members and their alumni to face the serious problems that make final clubs a scar on the Harvard community. Sears called the clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has even more gall than...
...Since our 50th reunion is coming up, I've started to think about the fact that 50 years have passed," Niebuhr says. "I don't mean to sound smug, but I don't think that I could have chanced into a better life than teaching here.... It is continual intellectual stimulation...
What makes all these characters so attractive is their very genuine fallibility--even those who can snap their fingers and land instantly in Tahiti. Buffy gets her priorities skewed sometimes; Daria is wise but smug. "She's a role model," notes mtv executive vice president Abby Terkuhle. "But she's not without her problems." Indeed, these characters are not meant to seem superheroic...
Rosenblatt never flinches from his deeply felt conviction that the students had to be punished decisively for their actions and he suggests personal distaste at their smug and self-aggrandizing conduct. "The students were not only sure they were right; they were sure they were wonderful." But he condemns the adults in the institution as well: he implicates the administration for "overreacting and behaving stupidly" and the Faculty for being strangely apathetic and botching opportunities where they might have been able to respond successfully to the students' myriad complaints. The prevailing sentiment among the Faculty, according to Rosenblatt, seems...