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...minor, but symbolically major change in the text of our school song, "Fair Harvard." The first line, which used to read, "Fair Harvard! thy sons to thy jubilee throng," now is as follows, "Fair Harvard! we join in thy jubilee throng." The use of the inclusive, non gender-specific pronoun in the song which is sung at almost every major Harvard event is, of course, long overdue, but that's what the Celebration of Women at Harvard was about: symbolic change and the major change in the text of our school song, "Fair Harvard." The first line, which used...
...that such self-help groups as 12-step organizations and New Age religions have usurped and replaced outward-looking civic groups. In his book Trust, Francis Fukuyama says that the "rights revolution" of the 1970s and '80s undermined the country's sense of community. I replaced we as the pronoun of choice. The Me decades supplanted the We century. There is no doubt that America's narcissism is showing. But ever since feminists asserted that the "personal is political," groups designed to remedy individual problems have branched out to solve larger and more political ones. The women's movement, which...
...pronoun does not stand for some asexual being, sprung from its cage to propel the Crimson to victory...
McGuire notices the major gender problems inherent on campuses today, but his proposals for addressing them are counterproductive. We live in an academic society where gender has become one of the most problematic topics in any level of discussion. From not knowing whether to use the non-specific pronoun "he" in a paper to not knowing what innocuous sentence may stir indignation in the mind of a fellow "co-ed," gender questions have become a mystifying mine field for many male students...
...real candidate of the Silent Majority." Taking the stage, he sounded like Marlon Brando in The Godfather and spoke for 21 seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun "we." Afterward a reporter cracked to a Clinton aide, "I thought Mrs. Wilson's speech was fine," a snide reference to the last year of Woodrow Wilson's second term when the invalid President ceded much official power to his wife...