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The expendable part of the Ec 10 material is the portion of the equity unit that deals with Professor of Philosophy John Rawls' conception of fairness, laid out in his book A Theory of Justice. In this unfortunate presentation of this material Ec 10 succeeds only in mauling Rawls and...
"It's an opportunity for them to learn about things that normally wouldn't be taught in a high school curriculum," says Daniel A. Sachs '90, who directs the program. "It doesn't present Harvard students as total geeks only interested in facts."
Michelle D. Holdt '92, a member of the Rindge and Latin Class of '87, says that most of her classmates did not take an active interest in the affairs of Harvard. And there was a reason for that, she adds.
"In high school I had very little sense of the quantity of Harvard students in the Square," Holdt says. "In high school Harvard Yard is somewhere that you walk through to get to the Square. I think it still is."
Holdt recalls an incident last spring that reinforced her sense of how separate Harvard and its high school neighbor are. During a party at Adams House, a fight broke out between Harvard students and Rindge and Latin students. The Harvard police, she says, arrested only the Rindge and Latin students...