Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually believes the game is legitimately plagued by security concerns. Rather, threatening to enforce a ban (which nobody's heard of until now) under a feeble excuse is indicative of a short-sighted view of campus life. Normally, the College should be jumping to endorse precisely this type of social activity--after all, students are interacting with each other in a meaningful and creative context which doesn't require drugs or alcohol...
...thing for House Masters to assess the value of individual House-wide activities. Although we encourage the Masters of Lowell to give the game a chance after all, the game--in one form or another--has thus far successfully promoted positive values of community and social interaction in Pforzheimer and Quincy Houses), it is ultimately their decision whether or not the game is consistent with the spirit of their house...
...entirely different matter for Nathans, employing an utterly bogus rationale, to prevent 1,600 first-years from organizing or participating in a valid social activity. Not only does it stifle Harvard's already impoverished social life, but it seems to represent a condescending and overly paternalistic attitude on the part of the Dean of Freshmen...
...view the movement as primarily a social and anthropocentric one, much like the struggles against poverty and hunger. For we are not really trying to save the earth for the earth but rather preserve the conditions on earth that make it most favorably inhabitable by us. Climate change is not problematic to the earth: it will not explode as a result of increasing temperatures, and other forms of life will adapt and evolve (or not) to the changing conditions. However, climate change is immensely threatening to our species, because the floods, droughts and proliferation of parasites and bacteria harm...
Slobbery tennis balls flying overhead, tunnel-vision students march unwittingly through one of Harvard's hottest social scenes. It's not the Hasty Pudding Club; it's not the Fly Club. And though the literal brown-nosing the that goes on here may resemble a punch event, this crowd runs circles around any of Harvard's ornganized parties...