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...times have changed. Forty years ago this month, in 1969, the Reserve Officers Training Program (ROTC) was booted off campus due to student protests over the Vietnam War—which included a violent takeover of University Hall and arson of a campus ROTC building. While we’ve moved away from the era of radical anti-American student activism (for the most part), the policy results achieved by that activism still stand at Harvard. ROTC is now unwelcome here due to the Clinton administration’s “Don’t Ask, Don?...
...member of the second bracket two summers ago, I experienced simultaneous waves of horror and jealousy toward my investment-banking cohorts so strong that, for a moment, I wondered what it would be like to be an exhausted but well-paid shell of my former self. I also had such sudden feelings of moral inadequacy compared to the wunderkind that I would glance at my $15 well drink and ask whomever was around (sometimes a stranger, sometimes to myself): “What am I doing in New York...
April 9--exactly one week ago--marks the 40th anniversary of the infamous student takeover of University Hall. That's right. Forty years ago, a mob of angry students barged into the administrative building and kicked the deans out. FlyBy didn't know the anniversary had passed--but considering FAS's projected $220 million deficit over the next two years, we probably don't have the funds to invite guest speakers to commemorate an event like that anyway. More ruminations on student takeovers after the jump...
...Four years ago, you would not have said a Democratic nominee would win states like Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia, so I think you cannot look at what happened on November 4th and assume that in November of 2012 that that is going to be terribly educational, because things can change rapidly. Presidential campaigns are like a puzzle. You’re trying to piece together 270 electoral votes. And I think right now there’s no doubt that we have an easier path than Republicans do. The Republicans have their own process to work out. They have...
...been so patient. When I evacuated suburbia almost four years ago for haven in Cambridge, I figured that my musical internment was finally over, that I was headed into a utopia of playlist swaps and impromptu banjo-and-melodica practice sessions...