Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers, farewell, and thank you for listening. May Harvard fare well in your company. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. This is his final column...
...their individual richness and worth. It is up to each individual student--through personal introspection and open dialogue--to determine the ideal blocking group. The end result might happen to be a large, small, tight-knit or diffuse group. It could mean a group that encapsulates one's entire social circle or one that exists solely for convenience...
...addition to the new presidents, Lipi M. Patel '02 was elected as treasurer; Vikas Goyal '01 was elected as academic/political chair; Treeny Ahmed '00 was elected as cultural chair; Nikhil Kacker '02 was elected as social chair; Ankit B. Patel '02 was elected as secretary and Alina Das '01 was elected as outreach chair...
...choice, we concede that large blocking groups are not always the best answer. We recognize that the effect of students' living with their entire group of friends in the same house-and often also in the same entryway-is detrimental to their college experience and prevents the broadening of social horizons...
...their upward trend in size or their unbalanced gender composition. Instead, it is the nebulous conception of a blocking group in itself. Ideally and for the most part, a blocking group should be a group of close friends and potential roommates. Rarely should it be an entire social circle. But the hazy purpose of blocking groups is again not reason to restrict students' ability to choose with whom to live throughout their college years. Rather, it is reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups to first-years before these misinterpretations...