Word: tower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...these writers detail their plans for improvement of the tower and tout the merits of seclusion and elitism, we cannot help but imagine Harvard students as complacent Rapunzels who have stopped dreaming of escape. The beautiful long hair that might have been our connection to the outside world became annoying, so with short hair and apparently empty conscience we have boarded the windows and plan to spend our days eating grapes, playing squash, writing Core papers and waging the good fight for universal keycard access...
...course, as Cotton points out, not everyone is a complacent Rapunzel: the baneful progressives keep stomping around the tower demanding that the windows be unboarded, insisting that we think about people outside of the tower and remember that we are the lucky few. We would like to point out that not only do we need to notice the world outside of our decadent tower, but we need to recognize that it is fundamentally impossible to exclude oneself from society for four years of college. To pretend to do so is entirely unjustifiable...
...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 is one use of "political capital...
...simply cannot disengage from the outside world selectively; this is an all-too-easy-to-believe ivory tower delusion. Just as the food in the dining hall is not really free, and "dining services flexibility" means that more employees go home later, our position as college students does not render us innocuous or ineffectual in the non-college world. Apathy cannot be justified on the basis of academic demands or career aspirations...