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...gained steam. Ineffectual government was also on the forefront of student thought, as students became disillusioned by the newly-created Student Assembly as well as the tepid politics of the Democratic Party. That Harvard seems prone to a glacial pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature concentration. And lastly, Harvard’s efforts at land development yielded controversy at the Sumner Road apartments, a story that bears no small similarity to the recent dispute over the Charlesview apartments in Allston. George Santayana’s old adage comes to mind, that...
...years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend stories are notoriously difficult to substantiate—for every 10 anecdotes pointing one way, one can easily find 20 the other. This particular New York Times article—based on 138 interviews with...
Haddock said that "the creation of a student committee has been a positive sign" that Bok is willing to consult with students...
...life and physical sciences. We wholeheartedly endorsed these reforms and await their immediate implementation.The proposals of the Education Policy Committee and the Committee on a January Term, on the other hand, we view with some skepticism. Instead of rewarding students for the breadth of their interests, the creation of secondary fields is more likely to compel students down the path of credentialism. The second key reform of the Education Policy Committee was to delay concentration choice until the end of the first semester of sophomore year. But this would be inherently disadvantageous to concentrations in the sciences, especially engineering?...
...kill myself." In the high-octane non-stop flame war that is the political blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga knows how to get attention. He's kidding, of course. We're talking about the rhetorical excesses that can spill out of the impassioned debate that takes place on his creation, DailyKos.com, the world's most popular political blog...