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There are several obvious conclusions to be drawn from the very recent history of crime at Harvard. Perpetrators tend to be tight-fisted, easily knocked-down, and exceptionally stupid. Incidents are common enough to make any world-weary undergraduate nervous; the first two months of 2007 saw eight reported thefts from College residences alone...
...visitors that other universities in the Boston area impose on their undergraduates, and that’s great indeed. The obvious flip-side of our openness, of our superiors’ chronic reassurances, and the alacrity with which we approach the advisories in our inboxes, is that we tend to think we’re far safer than we actually are. That’s not a good thing, for the people whom we hurt the most, with our inflated estimations of safety, are ultimately ourselves...
Ultimately, although students tend to view our ivory tower as one of a few lonely secular outposts in a vast wilderness of religious ignorance, this indulgent, self-laudatory narrative is mistaken. Likewise, modish militant atheism (Richard Dawkins and the like) misses the mark; shrill, self-righteous atheism may be sexy—oh so radical, sure to infuriate the parents—but it’s like kicking a dying horse. In retrospect, talk of a new 20th-century great awakening will be seen as the last gasp of a bygone era, as the Americans catch up with...
...Critics tend to be as susceptible to elevated sentiment as real people are. They love a movie that makes them cry, especially for what their politics tells them are noble reasons. Well, I'm a critic, predictably progressive and a pushover for movie sentiment. (An Affair to Remember, wipe me out one more time.) Audiences may laugh at an Adam Sandler movie, but that doesn't make it good. The same applies to a film that cozies up to an audience's political beliefs. You're welcome to cry, but don't feel good about it in the morning...
...Willie, who is an expert on desegregation and controlled-choice, said that achieving diversity in the early years of school is particularly important because students tend to remain in the same school through eighth grade...