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...rights of the minority" in order to charge discrimination where none exists. The most recent example concerns the reaction to Christmas decorations in House dining halls. Hope Reisman writes to The Crimson that she finds "such decorations offensive and discriminatory." I fail to see the applicability of either term. Ms. Reisman need not feel personally insulted or offended that a sizeable portion of the community wishes to celebrate a particular holiday while she does not. Nor should she feel that she is being discriminated against; no benefits are being conferred on some and specifically not on her except those benefits...
...Ms. Reisman also states, "I thought that the student body as a whole would be sensitive to the needs of minority students." Certainly the majority has a responsibility to respect those needs; does this mean that the majority should refrain from anything to which a significant minority objects, perhaps at the expense of being insensitive to needs of "majority students"? One suspects that if this were the case Harvard would have to abandon its four-day recess in November as being clearly discriminatory: there are many foreign students at Harvard for whom that break is doubtless too short a time...
...large, dominated by those with a penchant for subjective reporting--documentation of a personal struggle, digging into one's past for an explanation of the present. At times, this genre, this "let-me-spill-out-my-guts-to-you", can become tedious and self-indulgent (witness Ms. Magazine). At times, however, it can be extremely effective...
...impetus to furnish Ms. Caldwell with what she so justly merits−her own opera house...
...MANUAL for the divorcing woman, the diary does provide emotional companionship but fails to tackle the pragmatic problems of divorce. Braudy had a network of friends to drag her out of her depression, she had a talent that merely needed development (she is now editor and writer for Ms. Magazine), and she had no children to hamper her individual development...