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...from the Harvard administration. For this, we are immensely grateful. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and his colleagues have been very supportive of those in uniform. He’s pushing to increase funding, has written us letters of support and has even allowed us a page in the yearbook. ROTC, it appears, is finally winning its “30-Years War” with “John Harvard.” Yet, a war among our own people is not what we seek. We truly seek compromise and friendship. In the coming months when HROTCA holds...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers said he admired the way the students were serving their country. Since then, he has questioned the “unorthodox” manner in which Harvard cadets receive funding and has made a personal appeal to the editors of Harvard’s yearbook to include ROTC in this year’s edition. ROTC—originally banished from campus during the Vietnam War—has been barred since 1994 because the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...worthy details (two words: animal prints) that characterize Gen X and Y nostalgia in general. Whereas baby-boomer touchstones like Brooklyn Bridge and The Big Chill recalled the '50s as more innocent and the '60s as more meaningful than the present, their successors tend to subscribe to the bad-yearbook-photo school of history. Instead of seeing the past as a lost Eden, they see history as an eternal march upward from dorkiness. The more memorable moments in the '80s pilot--already beaten to death in Fox's ads--include characters dancing to Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield...
More recently, Summers asked Harvard’s yearbook staff to make ROTC an exception to their policy of excluding activities that are not official student groups from mention in the book. Summers met with yearbook editors Dec. 13 and made a “personal request” to honor students by recording their participation in ROTC, Yearbook President Kyna G. Fong ’03 said...
...fact that she was born in America. Explains Utada: "I'm a citizen of both countries. I was never that conscious of my nationality growing up." She remembers one incident in middle school when she was asked to declare her nationality for her entry in a school yearbook. "The yearbook staff came to ask me what I wanted to be put down as. I said, 'I don't know. Does nationality refer to what you are racially, or is it where you were born? Or where you grew up? What is it?' And everyone's like, 'Well...