Word: urban
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...enduring legacy of Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 will not be the quashing of preregistration, universal keycard access or urban planning measures from dance space to Allston. No, it’ll be the dry zingers he lets loose in public, delivered in his trademark deadpan. Chopra has never shied away from press—be it The Crimson, Business Week, or the Baltimore Sun—and he makes it worth a reporter’s while with remarks like the ones below, excerpted in chronological order...
...same type of public schools that barred Catholics’ entry or went unfunded when Catholics were admitted have merely collapsed under the weight of today’s urban poor— which are disproportionately ethnic minorities. In their stead, more successful charter schools have been established and, more significantly, voucher programs have been proposed and in some places, established. And even while the Supreme Court declared last year that voucher programs did not violate the U.S. Constitution, the racist-inspired Blaine amendments of many state constitutions are now being wielded against the voucher programs of today...
...ruling (Mitchell v. Helms), has found that the term has “a shameful pedigree” within American history, the Blaine language’s usage today—to block judicially and on a state level a multitude of programs made to benefit the urban poor—has disturbing parallels with America’s nativist past...
Although it is not yet clear whether Summers will consider instituting a fifth Allston planning task force for that purpose—there are already task forces focusing on the professional schools; science and technology; culture, graduate housing and urban life; and undergraduate life—but there is reason to be optimistic that he will make good on the environmental commitment he made to Sustainable Allston. Indeed, Harvard is not a rookie in the campaign to preserve the environment. Shad Hall at Harvard Business School sports solar panels built this year, thanks to a grant from the Massachusetts Technology...
...reaction in the Arab world, and in Iraq itself, if an army that likes to think of itself as Iraq's liberators turns out to be seeking coaching from Israel. The New York Times reported last weekend that U.S. officers had gone to Israel to study its experiences of urban warfare and counterinsurgency in the West Bank and Gaza before invading Iraq. The British Guardian quotes unnamed U.S. officials confirming that Israeli officers are helping to train U.S. Special Forces at Fort Bragg for counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, and also claims that Israeli officers have been in Iraq discreetly serving...