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...Women’s Center is meant to help students and organizations find each other and the resources they need—objectives that it can achieve with proper support and funding from the administration. Indicting the center for failing to do something it doesn’t purport to do is illogical and unfair...
Believers too, especially in the university setting, must also do a better job of deciding how much of their religion is premised on historical assumptions and how much on pure faith. Religion based on blame and accusations that purport to be truthful have real-world consequences. No one should be expected to bear those consequences without seeking to have the accusations tested by the tools of the academy. Yet many resist such testing, regarding it as disrespectful of religious beliefs. TV commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have labeled criticism of the historical accuracy of the Gibson...
...Student Dress Code Your notebook item [Feb. 2] on the debate over France prohibiting the wearing of head scarves and other religious symbols in public schools missed one point: France's schools, which close on Sundays and Christian holidays, purport to be secular, but in fact they are Christian schools, pressuring Jews to attend on Saturdays and telling Muslim girls not to cover their hair. If "small crucifixes" are O.K., then why not small head scarves or small Jewish skullcaps? Joseph A. Feld London...
Popular culture suggests that Harvard is the place to be. U.S. News & World Report places Harvard at the top of its college rankings. Films like Legally Blonde purport that we can be smart, glamorous and happy all at the same time. Platitudes tell us we should be having the time of our lives. And yet the National Institute of Health reports that in 2002, 69 percent of Harvard students felt exhausted up to 10 times during the year, 65 percent felt overwhelmed by all they had to do and 48 percent felt things were hopeless...
...society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” The “public good” that students “thinking like activists” purport to advocate, while sneering at their classmates’ pettily provincial ambitions, is best achieved by means of self-interest. Activists trumpet the best outcome for humanity and curse the common people who realize it, all in the same breath...