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...Death of Irony, but Yardstick tenders that Sept. 11 also saw the Death of the Agenda. Who will be morally outraged at events that took place 500 years ago, when so many people were massacred just a month ago? Christopher Columbus may very well be a symbol of immoral behavior, but these terrorists are real and they are here and we are following vigilantly their every move, their every moral justification. They present an actual, unfathomable moral gap that cannot be satisfactorily described by means of some direct and simple analogy with our own moral environment. Yardstick hates these terrorists...
...conclusion, Yardstick points out that nowadays Columbus is too much a symbol and too little an examined historical figure. Symbols are for newcomers and neophytes (for instance, babies have symbolic sight). Symbols have the effect of telling you what to think. Instead, Columbus Day should tell us what to think about. This October, we were thinking about boxcutters and anthrax and the little pocket of utter immorality in Afghanistan. This is the kind of historical bowel-loosener that makes Columbus (or logging in Alaska or animal cruelty or violence on television) seem like a pretty pathetic target for protest...
...mile from campus. All that identifies it to passers-by is a small blue historical marker set there by the city of Cambridge—and that’s the way Harvard’s presidents have wanted it. For just as the house stands as a symbol of the job, it also is a private place for reflection and a chance to escape the daily stresses of Massachusetts Hall...
...Widener is a monumental building, internationally recognized as a symbol of Harvard. The same thing happened during the Gulf War. All of the lockers were removed from the ground floor,” Brainard comments. “There has historically been a sense that it might be more of a target than the other less recognizable libraries...
Loker, however, does not have to remain an symbol of the administration’s abysmal failure to provide student space. While it could never become a proper student center itself—the space is too limiting—it could at least be transformed into a more welcoming student space. Immediately, a student-administration committee to redesign Loker Commons over next summer should be convened. Students must be involved in the redesign so as to create a Loker that says living room and not cafeteria. It will take more than a jukebox to make the transition, but some...