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...this page--from Beth Stewart's detailing her unconscionable agenda (Feb. 3), to Tom Cotton's cheering selfishness, apathy and shortsightedness (Column, Feb. 18) to Josh Kaufman's describing our campus as appropriately the training ground of the social elite (Column, Feb. 20), columnists have been embracing the ivory tower we call home...
...these writers detail their plans for improvement of the tower and tout the merits of seclusion and elitism, we cannot help but imagine Harvard students as complacent Rapunzels who have stopped dreaming of escape. The beautiful long hair that might have been our connection to the outside world became annoying, so with short hair and apparently empty conscience we have boarded the windows and plan to spend our days eating grapes, playing squash, writing Core papers and waging the good fight for universal keycard access...
...course, as Cotton points out, not everyone is a complacent Rapunzel: the baneful progressives keep stomping around the tower demanding that the windows be unboarded, insisting that we think about people outside of the tower and remember that we are the lucky few. We would like to point out that not only do we need to notice the world outside of our decadent tower, but we need to recognize that it is fundamentally impossible to exclude oneself from society for four years of college. To pretend to do so is entirely unjustifiable...
...time again that the Undergraduate Council, which has only a limited amount of "political capital" in negotiations with the administration, should focus on campus issues--issues where ostensibly students agree and the council can effect real change. This seems like a nice enough idea: let's pretty up this tower of ours. We pay well over a hundred thousand dollars to go to school here; we should be able to wrap our grapes in two-ply toilet paper and eat them in the back seat of student-accessible vans. Well, that is one use of "political capital...
...background crooning of well-known blues artists is supplemented by closed-circuit TV, which explains each track's history and offers a picture of the album for those who the music inspires to dash across the park to Tower Records after dinner. While the presence of TVs seems incongruous at first, the programming adds a more intellectual note than the sports game currently showing at Grafton or Brew Moon. With tap beers ranging from $3 to $4, a stop at the bar is well within student budgets...