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...discuss and engage in issues that are bigger than ourselves sets the stage for a future of disassociation from democratic society. Incidentally, the signs are beginning to appear already. We of the DotNet generation are more involved in volunteer work and community problem-solving than those who came before us??more invested in our personal connections to civic life—but we are less attuned to national politics, less likely to contact our political representatives, and less likely to vote. The University cannot force students to care about campus decision-making any more than it can force...
...rink.Nevertheless, the successful season, which included an Ivy League title in addition to the ECAC championship, was an impressive accomplishment for a Harvard team that was predicted to suffer severely from the graduation of the Class of 2005.“I don’t think anyone expected us??outside of the team—to do as well as we did,” said senior goaltender and team MVP John Daigneau. “Unfortunately, we fell under the curse or whatever everyone was saying, but we were ECAC champs...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) biochemist’s research on a common cause of blindness in the elderly has generated a lucrative deal with Merck & Co., the US??s second-largest drug provider. Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Robert R. Rando’s research has paved the way for the manufacturing of drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later...
...parachute-assisted jump off the top of the Ivory Tower will land us at the base of the mountain of Real Life. Compared to our previous experience, this new climb promises to test fewer skills in greater repetition. College graduates like us??jacks of all trades but masters of none—will narrow our foci, settle into our routines, and begin to climb anew. Maybe all this is why drunken alumni at Harvard-Yale games sputter on about how our college years are the best years of our lives...
...integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us??the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion.He is right, of course, about the third alternative...