Word: socialism
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...keep it running perpetually,” he says. “But I might find somebody else to run it and still continue to own it so I can start new projects, continue expanding.”Shah says his interests lie primarily in the social aspect of entrepreneurship. He has taken Professor David L. Ager’s course Sociology 159: “Social Entrepreneurship,” and INeedAPencil.com won the social entrepreneurship category of the I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge this year. His I3 presentation was impressive enough to attract the attention of Sunil...
...Vuuren’s self-congratulatory Nebraska-bashing may indicate the group’s sincere hopes of effecting positive change, but such a vision also embodies the elitist idealism and lackluster social theory that characterizes the campaign. In this affair, the old adage rings true: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Van Vuuren and his colleagues have fashioned themselves as warriors of gender equality while failing to consider what they’re promoting—essentially, a program that misrepresents the reality of modern sexual violence and reduces women to passive victims...
...purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn never materializes. But this logic fails to consider that, while collecting $6 million from recession-pinched alums for the clear goal of a building purchase is difficult enough, trying to raise the same amount with only a vague appeal to “social space” would be flatly impossible...
...Social space at Harvard is a real problem. But the Undergraduate Council’s potential purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn Street is an even bigger one. While admirably motivated, the plan is not a feasible solution and should be abandoned immediately. We commend the UC for working to solve the important issue of social space on campus, but its fixation on purchasing this particular property is unwise...
...also particularly troubling that, as per the seller’s stipulations, a large portion of the building would have to be set aside for “progressive social organizations,” a term that, while nebulous, connotes a certain ideological leaning the UC has no business promoting with its real estate. The UC is a body intended to represent Harvard’s entire undergraduate population, and no social space it attempts to create should ever alienate those students whose political views may not necessarily be classified as “progressive...