Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than taking Montgomery's word as truth, I decided to see if comparison shopping really paid off. It did; I purchased Weber's book at the Harvard Book Store for less than the cost of any Coop edition...
...first memory of the Beanpot, perhaps appropriatly, is a strange one. I was watching TV with my dad one night and we had it on a channel that was showing a tournament and to tell you the truth I don't even remember who was playing, but we recognized a few of the names so we just sat down and started watching it. Problem was, Toronto really didn't get the channel and so you could imagine that the game was a bit hard to follow. So needless to say, my first Beanpot experience left me with...
...room for discourse. Professor Kennedy remarked that because the answers to profound questions are always elusive, we should maintain an open dialogue. But Binswanger and his mob-squad would have none of it. By evening's end, it was made clear that objectivism had a monopoly on truth...
...course, this tension also exists in the United State's own judicial system. But in contrast to Harvard's Ad Board, the government, operating on the premise that it is impossible to arrive at the truth fairly via coercion and secrecy, established civil liberties laws to protect citizens from the potential excess of the government. The Ad Board undeniably shares the potential for these excesses, given that it has substantial power to seriously damage students via probation, explusion and requirements to withdraw. But within its current system, Harvard has implicitly decreed that the Ad Board is not party to these...
...Harvard, the choice about whether to pursue meaningful Ad Board reform is a choice between which standards it prefers to uphold: those that have been hashed out over the centuries by legal scholars as ideal for establishing the truth, defending the accused, and meting out appropriate punishments; or those that "protect" Harvard students, the same Harvard students, that write books, run million-dollar companies, and even occasionally have the ear of the White House...