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...deal with another of his points, Upton is not the first person to express concerns regarding the Memorial Hall tower. He is correct that $4 million is being spent on the project; however, Harvard is not paying for it out of its budget. Several alumni donors gave the money specifically for the purpose of rebuilding the tower. The University did not allocate this money, nor could officials redirect the funds...
...deal with another of his points, Upton is not the first person to express concerns regarding the Memorial Hall tower. He is correct that $4 million is being spent on the project; however, Harvard is not paying for it out of its budget. Several alumni donors gave the money specifically for the purpose of rebuilding the tower. The University did not allocate this money, nor could officials redirect the funds...
Increasingly, these ivory tower pooh-bahs ignore students' interests and enforce an illiberal orthodoxy. Single-sex fraternities and sororities are bad, the argument goes, because they stifle social interaction, encourage anti-intellectual behavior and exacerbate the unsafe use of alcohol. Perhaps most importantly, Greek life is said to retard attempts at campus integration by separating men from women and excluding traditionally underrepresented groups. One wonders where thoughts of these goals are when pushing drinking into more exclusive and unsafe dorm parties or arranging housing based on ethnicity. As part of the aging Baby Boom, university administrators have turned free speech...
From the days Dartboard started playing illicit games of tag in the house on rainy days to the times we organized kick-the-can during the summer months, we have always enjoyed our games. Must entry to the ivory tower mean abandoning all such frivolous activities...
...concentration of misery and suffering in its purest form--when people die, they die violently and horribly. Good is corrupted, and evil abounds. There is no redemption. There are no happy endings. It is an incredibly dark vision but one that is undoubtedly held be Walker, the former Tower Records clerk-turned-angst-ridden-screen- writer, who must have kept of a copy of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan handy when he sat down to write his first film, Seven, and his new one, 8MM. Both films share an incredibly bleak outlook of the human condition, and while these visions...