Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, unlike the results of Super Bowl, what happens on election day actually matters beyond the locker room celebration. It's no mystery why the government spends so much money on Social Security and Medicare while millions of younger Americans go without health care--the fogeys vote and the young'uns don't. Not convinced? Consider this: if every college-age citizen voted consistently, don't you think some enterprising candidates would start reconsidering that misguided minimum drinking...
...Anti-Social Behavior" (Opinion, Nov. 4): I was struck by Jonathan Jacoby's comment "many at Harvard...are (mis)guided in their so called career pursuits by the primary intension of selfishly accumulating inordinate wealth." As I understand his somewhat polemical writing students at Harvard who are going through recruiting are at fault because they take jobs largely based on the financial rewards of their work...
...years, Harvard administrators have been washing their hands of the social inequalities at Harvard, beginning with their refusal to officially recognize final clubs. Harvard has recently tried to address this inequality by pinning the status of victim on Harvard women and consequently insulting the women who frequent these clubs...
...Social inequality at Harvard is a reality which can only be addressed by the students. We are faced with a social system that was constructed to serve the needs of men. The existing male final clubs are run by "grad boards" of men who went to a different Harvard--years, even decades, ago. Women who wish to organize encounter both social and pragmatic problems; undergraduate women do not make a serious effort to build social organizations, and when they do, it is impossible to find space given the exorbitant prices and scarcity real estate in the Square...
...these reasons, there are three female social organizations (all without houses) as opposed to the nine male organizations. Women are not victims of this system. We are making conscious decisions about where we would like to socialize. When we go to a final club, we accept the fact that we have limited privileges in that club and enjoy the social atmosphere...