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...present, the HCC is an insular and self-preserving arm of the UC. The outgoing Chairman picks his or her successor upon vacating the office. Unimpressively, the most recent watershed reform to the HCC was the election of commission members by the UC. Under this system, no member of the HCC is even marginally accountable to the student body in any meaningful...
...Upon returning from Germany, he spent nine years in Washington, D.C. There, he earned a degree in public policy from Georgetown and worked for Congressional and Executive technology think-tanks...
...teams, blockmates, social clubs, and tightly-knit student groups. Then come second-tier student groups, after that cultural or religious affiliations, and, only then, the Houses. One is almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard you are more likely to be identified by your cliquish social club or cutthroat political group. There is little community, little sense of shared space...
...tolerating dissidence, but welcoming it, and there is a Bosporus Strait between those terms. European powers should stay true to their illuminated Constitutions and embrace other values. More time is needed before Turkey can secure membership in the EU, and not to allow further conformist demands to be placed upon the Turkish people. Rather, time is needed to overcome despicable vetoes like Austria’s and avoid the creation of further hatred. Time is needed to understand why Turks are not willing to give up their identities, no matter the price. Time is needed to develop better understanding...
It’s a familiar weekend scene: a mob of Harvard students looking for a party descend upon a few cramped common rooms scattered throughout the Houses. While these sparse closets-turned-dance-clubs burst with festive undergrads, the doors to some of the most vaunted social spaces within the Houses—infamous suites like Eliot House’s “Ground Zero” and Lowell House’s Bell Tower—remain closed. Thankfully, the Undergraduate UC (UC) has proposed a solution to this madness: the UC will now offer...