Word: disconnectedness
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“I’m rather displeased with the way the council is working right now. It’s totally disconnected from the students,” says Nichols. “We want to build this thing from the ground up. We want to give the...
Youth voters and their issues have historically been ignored by candidates for exactly this reason. Politicians cannot be expected to listen to us when we seemingly have nothing to say. At Harvard, where nearly everyone is presumably more politically aware than the average 20 year-old, it is easy to...
I would also like to add that if students feel disconnected from their council representatives, the Crimson is itself partly to blame. This September, we had the second highest number of candidates running for office—ever. Yet the Crimson focused on the fact that...
Furthermore, we deem the administration’s efforts to solicit input from students inadequate. Although we appreciate the work that has been done thus far—student representation on select committees, a handful of open discussion sessions, accepting e-mail feedback and surveying students on their broad opinions?...
But the most important survival role religion may serve is as the mortar that holds a group together. Worshipping God doesn't have to be a collective thing; it can be done in isolation, disconnected from any organized religion. The overwhelming majority of people, however, congregate to pray, observing the...