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It’s ironic that age segregation at college goes largely unquestioned, given that this reality in other parts of society is so contentious. Age segregation among the elderly is a source of serious debate; the question of whether retirement communities prevent social integration is a contentious one. Although the concerns may be slightly different in the case of college students, the problem is the same. Living with hundreds of people your age just isn’t normal, so let’s try not to get used...
...illness. Patients with the opposite temperament—those who no longer want to fight and end their lives—have also garnered national media attention. Here it’s clearest that the community of citizens within liberal democracy becomes a house divided over the question of whether society should leave man free to destroy himself. This difficult question forces an even more difficult choice between liberty and limit...
...culture wars in the U.S. are a good example of the more general societal conflict over whether time’s arrow points the way toward a world that is good or, for that matter, happy. Empirical studies give some indication that progress is not a recipe for satisfaction, even though citizens are freer—perhaps, at liberty to be as unhappy as they are unconstrained. Society might not be on the path that Fukuyama or the preceding picture suggests, but any reclamation of societal standards—such as those underlying monogamy or speech regulations—would...
Alexandra A. Petri ’10 opened the event with a comedic burst, asking the audience to pick the side of a coin to determine whether she would deliver a lecture on fan fiction or salmon, ultimately lapsing into quips about high school prom...
...really lucked out with the weather,” Grillo said. “We normally actually have horrendous weather for this event, whether it’s raining or just really cold...