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Harvard has demonstrated its commitment to intercultural relations with the establishment of the Harvard Foundation, created with the mandate to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups within the University and to enhance the quality of our common life.” What??s baffling is the practical result of that goal: the facilitation of dialogue between students with distinct racial and ethnic identities, and the simultaneous ignorance of the unique position and insight of those students in whom these identities converge...
...We’re like the guinea pigs of the program,” Cameron says. “We have meetings about once a year to talk about what??s working, what??s not working, and what could be changed...
...What??s happened behind us has to be out of our minds,” MacDonald said. “We’re just looking forward at this point...
...whole, though, the great significance of foreign languages is an argument against—not for—requiring them in a students’ first year and thereby impinging upon students’ ability to choose what??s best for them. In most cases, undergraduates deeper into their Harvard education can make a more sensible decision on the language they will focus upon, rather than making a hasty decision freshman year (consider the aspiring doctor with a summer internship in Peru, or the economist with a sudden epiphany to embrace the classics...
...Harvard freshman’s schedule already has at least one semester of expository writing in it (some have two). What??s more, many of our campus’s newest inhabitants are worn out from their high-school language experience or unsure of what new tongue to take up next. This unique dilemma, and the grumbling that follows, is created entirely by the haphazard, bureaucratic rules in place that stifle a welcoming intellectual environment. In the spirit of cultivating curious, focused minds, Harvard should trust its students to make their own informed, reasoned choices from among...