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...longest-standing employees, and serving chicken nuggets twice a week, Harvard is hitting students below the belt. Harvard may be saving money, but at what cost? Granted, this university has never been famed for its fine cuisine, but its gifted faculty, dedicated staff, and world-renowned library system have played a great part in making Harvard the institution it is today. Besides, wandering through the Widener stacks is like dating an undergraduate: something that requires special permission unless you are an undergraduate...
...Instead of taking away one seventh of our access to the treasures of the Harvard library system—the largest academic library in the world—Harvard should be shoving us through those imposing Widener doors. There is so much knowledge in the Harvard library system that there must be a solution to the financial crisis buried in there somewhere, probably between the back issues of “Playboy” and that mysterious book entitled “Privies Galore” that I’ve had to retrieve from the depository twice. Widener...
...personal effects of Emily Dickinson and some book called “The Tao of Poop”? Harvard should be giving its students more opportunities to think great thoughts without being interrupted by calls for grande lattes, not fewer. If the people who designed our current economic system had been denied the opportunity to access Widener on Saturdays, we would probably be bartering...
...There’s a wave of anti-elitist populism sweeping the country as you read this. As Robert Reich, former U.S. labor secretary, puts it, “typical Americans are hurting very badly right now. They resent people who appear to be living high off a system dominated by insiders with the right connections.” Considering the repeated labeling of the money allocated for the National Endowment for the Arts in the stimulus bill “pork barrel spending,” it’s a real fear that the people...
...church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development." (See the top 10 religion stories...