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...cacophony of so many angry voices vilifying one another is stifling informed debate rather than promoting it. Tyler P. Burke New York City One irony of the technological age is how a plethora of choices has served to separate and isolate us. We have become electronic and ideological shut-ins. Nowhere is this willful know-nothingism more apparent than in the current political quagmire, in which candidates and their rabid supporters ferociously cleave to their ideological realities. It's not only on Election Day that most of us will decide we don't care what our neighbors think...
California candidate for Senate Bill Jones tried to shut down the site in 2000, claiming it was “a form of vote-buying and selling,” according to VotePair.org...
...games-to-none lead, battering the Red Sox in Game Three, 19-8. Yet any true baseball fan had to know that the Yankees wouldn’t complete the sweep. No Yankees-Red Sox series could end that quietly. The Red Sox stormed back, defying history, as Boston shut down what had been an unstoppable Yankees offense, and finished their astonishing comeback by cruising to a 10-3 Game 7 win, devastating Yankee fans...
Unlike the fraternity system at other universities, where the administration can force frats to shut down or move off campus, at Harvard, final clubs are beyond the school’s jurisdiction. While long affiliated and supported by Harvard, in 1984 the university told the clubs they had to go co-ed or go private. The clubs decided to privatize, leaving them untouchable and segregated. Finals clubs are owned and financed by “grad boards,” which are composed of club alumni. This leaves Harvard’s dominant social spaces to the control...
...things to do on a Friday night than support a system that enables sexual assault and represents oppression. We all have the power to demonstrate our rejection of the club system. We can make Harvard pay attention to the needs and interests of all of its students. We can shut down final clubs and create safe, inclusive spaces instead...