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There has been a disturbing trend in recent articles on this page--from Beth Stewart's detailing her unconscionable agenda (Feb. 3), to Tom Cotton's cheering selfishness, apathy and shortsightedness (Column, Feb. 18) to Josh Kaufman's describing our campus as appropriately the training ground of the social elite (Column, Feb. 20), columnists have been embracing the ivory tower we call home...
...Beth Stewart has argued time and time again that the Undergraduate Council, which has only a limited amount of "political capital" in negotiations with the administration, should focus on campus issues--issues where ostensibly students agree and the council can effect real change. This seems like a nice enough idea: let's pretty up this tower of ours. We pay well over a hundred thousand dollars to go to school here; we should be able to wrap our grapes in two-ply toilet paper and eat them in the back seat of student-accessible vans. Well, that...
This is not to say that there are not campus issues which deserve the attention of the UC, student groups, and individual students; issues like faculty diversity and campus safety need to be addressed (and to the extent that Stewart makes progress on these concerns, we applaud her). But they need to be addressed because they speak to broader societal problems that demand our attention...
...Stewart's focus on campus luxuries is unjustifiable, and there is not a modicum of merit in working for universal keycard access, van accessibility and cable TV when Harvard students already have nicer living conditions than 99 percent of the world ever will. We take issue with the notion that the supposed impotence of the council somehow justifies selfishness, shortsightedness and seclusion...
...suggested the idea to a Kirkland House Undergraduate Council representative in January. He said he would bring it to the attention of the council, but we have heard nothing of it since. Yet getting accounts for graduating seniors is the kind of political project even Beth Stewart's administration could champion. If such a project is not launched in time for graduation, students could only blame foot-dragging--or a perverse desire to be worse than Dartmouth. WALTON A. GREEN '98 DAVID S. GREWAL '98-'99 IAN T. SIMMONS...