Word: tactlessness
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...that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 delivered criticizing the College administration was inappropriate and wholly out of character with the spirit of the occasion. Charged with speaking on behalf of students at the College and all of the graduate schools, Petersen’s tactless rhetoric undermined the many legitimate points he made and rendered us embarrassed to be among the constituency that he purported to represent. The hero of Petersen’s speech was the “student-citizen,” who, as a member of the Harvard community, pledged...
...Party Fund, nor did he make any attempt to engage the UC. Instead, according to Kidd, Pilbeam made his decision after his staff briefed him on the ongoing discussions between Kidd, Associate Dean of Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson, and the UC leadership.Finally, in his clumsiest and most tactless move, Pilbeam posted his letter to the UC leadership on his Web site. A far more reasonable course of action would have been to continue working in private with student leaders, or at least give them fair warning before publicly announcing such a drastic change. Instead, the Dean alienated virtually...
Even those who brushed off the post as merely a tactless joke admitted that the “joke” is based, however remotely, on reality: that some final club members are frighteningly pompous about their “ornate” clubs, and that criteria for an “ideal” date at most of these institutions would not correspond with the Harvard admissions office’s pamphlet on diversity...
...individual, Counter is entitled to his views. But as Director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, he should be more than just a tactless curiosity. The Foundation is supposed to solve problems, not create them. Based on his history of ignorant and insensitive remarks, it is far from clear that Counter is the right man for such...
...armes, artistes! After being refused entry to a small soiree at the Signet Friday night, two ne’er-do-wells registered their disappointment in a manner befitting Harvard’s refined society of arts and letters: a brick through the kitchen window. (Perhaps a sly, if tactless, F.O. Matthiessen reference?) Fortunately, wanna-be actors and playwrights aren’t exactly the strongest group, and the brick didn’t cause any significant damage…A certain marathon-running, Uncle Sam-loving senior went on an impromptu two mile jog with superstar Kevin Spacey...