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Furthermore, the letter writers?? claim that political activism is gone from Harvard at all remains open to debate. While it may have been decades since riot squads passed under Boylston Gate, this fact connotes the transformation—not degradation—of undergraduates’ public spirit. The looming threat of the draft played an invaluable role as a catalyst for activism in the Vietnam era; the absence of conscription today makes political activism an entirely different enterprise. Moreover, the omnipresence of news and technology has lessened the necessity for the kind of public demonstration the people...
...Orient, he contends, has historically existed in the European (and Western) mind mainly in the form of an oppositional otherness. As such, the tendency to rationalize the systematic crudity of these civilizations has cropped up in the writings of our most revered and canonical of writers??even John Stuart Mill, for instance, noted that for cultural reasons On Liberty did not apply to India. While no longer painted with the deliberate mysticism of Jean-Leon Gerome’s French salons, the argument claims that Orientalism continues in strains of intellectual imperialism. The Orientalism thesis has spawned much...
...Jordan B. Weitzen ’08, whose Eliot House suite is one of the few on campus with access to satellite television, the television writers?? strike this month has come as something of a blessing in disguise. “It gives me more time to concentrate on more important things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater...
...want to make a living,” Alpert said. “When there’s a work stoppage in the entertainment industry, it affects every aspect of the city’s economy.” Without the influx of new scripts from members of the Writers?? Guild, Alpert says his firm will have to adjust its focus to animation, international co-production and local-language pieces. SOLIDARITY AND CUPCAKESMia E. Riverton ’99, a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Alpert’s wife, had similar feelings...
...Once he quit the circuit, he turned to fiction writing and attended the Iowa Writers?? Workshop...