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This intrinsic individualism would predict, then, that a sense of community responsibility would be put on hold or even forgotten as students try to juggle their own busy, stressed and over-committed lives.
First, we are extremely politically apathetic. Many of us did not even bat an eyelash when we exercised our democratic right by voting for the Undergraduate Council president last month. We clicked a few arrows to register our choices with the same disinterest with which we renew our library books...
Not that national politics fare any better here. Seniors have lived at Harvard during parts of two presidential campaigns. However, Iowa and New Hampshire, debates and conventions…well, you will learn about that in Government 1540, "The American Presidency." A good class.
Of course, the individualism to which we have grown accustomed will probably become a lifelong habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to...
So the widespread community service involvement of Harvard students is a welcomed surprise. It seems that students prefer affecting change at the micro-level, in a hands-on, feel-good manner. Mentoring a disadvantaged child, for example, strikes many of us as more meaningful than supporting a candidate who promises...