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Red Hot Politics
We are less certain about how we feel about abstract political issues than sexual ethics, and we transform the latter into identity politics.
Into the College Melting Pot
As such, I often question whether the international student body at Harvard contributes to the creation of global citizens truly capable of cultural and linguistic flexibility and adaptation to different contexts, or ratherto the creation of global elite citizens capable only of interacting with people who, albeitwith diverse passports, have already adapted to an “international” English-mediated culture.
Take Back the Debate
In order to tackle this issue, a majority of undergraduates themselves have to join the cause. It is in the arena of small actions that we can take the most meaningful steps toward combating sexual violence.
KESSLEMANIA: Crimson Battles Back Under Lights of Dancefloor
Despite the Harvard men’s basketball team's recent success, there has always been one knock against the Crimson: when the pressure ...
Two Sides, One Waste of Time
Most of the debate on the conference revolved around two subjects: anti-Semitism and free speech.
Birthright Palestine
Today, around 4.5 million Palestinians live as refugees, scattered across the Middle East. The one thing that unites all these refugees is their insistence on their right of return to their former homeland.
The Cards and How You Play Them
So we’re left with a Democratic president whose domestic agenda is less ambitious than that of a Republican president from three decades ago and a Republican opposition that decries that same agenda as rank socialism.
Polarization Problems
If gridlock remains despite the willingness of significant party members and committee leaders to work together, perhaps we as Americans have been looking for the problem in all of the wrong places.
Down with Dorm Crew
Dorm Crew’s services result in sparkling bathrooms, but they could be rife with bacteria. Harvard would never tolerate these issues from a third-party, professional vendor, and it should not lower its standards simply because student-workers provide the service.
In Defense of Snobbery
Ideally, college should perform the inverse of the process Santorum describes.
888 Memorial Drive
On March 6, 1971, about 150 women occupied 888 Memorial Drive, a Graduate School of Design building that was mostly abandoned and about to be destroyed.
Does Silence Serve?
When fellow students find something objectionable, the decent response is not to tell them they are being overly sensitive and making things worse.
What's in a Skill?
Germany's pervasive structural incorporation of vocational training into the education system allows graduates with different skills and expertise to be respected in society regardless of the perceived “prestige” of their chosen professions.
Crimson and Green
Students crave Wall Street’s money because they want to retain the place in America’s upper class that they secured with a Harvard admission.
Blind to Occidentalism
Like all non-scientific dogma, “Orientalism” is a truth within itself without truth.
