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It's hard to say whether The Crimson is emulating The Times, or vice versa. But I prefer The Crimson because it's cheaper/
Once more we read about unhinged college students attempting to deny free speech to an invited guest speaker.
So much for diversity and free speech on our campuses.
While I do not attend Harvard, I do attend the Univ. of Minnesota. I try to keep a copy of every paper issued near the toilet, in case I run out of TP.
"Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07"
Isn't it a tad presumptious to state when someone is expected to graduate before the fact? Then again, he's got a hyphenated last name, so presumptious is de rigeur, non?
Sorry Monster-- I've got no doubt the guy's a presumptuous jerk, but it's standard practice these days to be classified by your expected graduation date.
Plus the hyphenated name is more likely his parents' fault then his own. I know a lot of quite decent people with hyphens that they never wanted, and names that wouldn't fit on standardized test forms.
My Harvard-themed schadenfreude continues; I will put this incident in my scrapbook next to the Harvard girl who got busted for plagiarizing her crappy chick-lit novel.
ooooh...Micheal Gould-Wartofsky..."we will never forget the role of the FBI in MaCarthyism"...WTF!...You naive... spoiled...little prick!
irt these callow youths, i get the feeling that the rotten apples may not have fallen too far from their family trees. i can only hope they are paying a bundle for the "education" of their fruits.
"stop the unconstitutional repression of the environment"
I know I should find this depressing, but I just can't stop laughing. Have I been on campus around the loons too many years? Am I jaded?
Stamens and pistils rise up against this environmental repression! (well stamens anyway).
The Crimson's a pretty big organization, with much of the campus as an "editor." So the paper having a few crazy radicals is just to say that Harvard has a few crazy radicals. The paper and the college are liberal, to be sure, but not so much as you'd think just by isolating these two students out.
And the '07 doesn't assume he's graduating. Just means he's....a member of the Class of '07. Not exactly a rare college practice.
Why should we be surpised? You people are pitiful. I feel sorry for you when you enter the real world.
"stop the unconstitutional repression of the environment"
That's the line that caught me. It's like, ohmygod, this is...what ? Harvard ?
We's in deep doo doo if the Harvard heckling & commentating types quoted here might be considered the best and the brightest.
"The Best and the Brightest" of course, the title of one of David Halberstam's books. Who was killed this week in the Bay area (CA) when the car he was riding in (after speaking in Berkeley) was broadsided.
Is a little "schadenfeude" totally inappropriate here? Gee, if I had gone back to #5 I wouldn't have had to go my "Webster's New Third International..." for the spelling.
Did you get that spelling from the Official Harvard Dictionary?
1) All that being a "Crimson editor" means is that you've completed the initial "comp" process in which you write articles, learn Crimson style, etc. etc. It does not mean that you have ever actually edited anything for the paper. Many students complete the "comp" and then never darken the door of the paper again, or barely show up. I have no idea if that's the case with these two people, but it's entirely possible. The students who run the Crimson are *executives*. There are a fair number of people who spend their lives at the Crimson who aren't yet executives; these two people may fit that category. But they may also not have seen the inside of the paper's building for years.
(Remember this if you're ever looking at a resume that brags that someone was a "Crimson editor." The top jobs at the paper all have more definitive titles, and the person allegedly at the top is the president.) 2) It's Crimson style to identify people with their middle initials and, if they have one, their Harvard undergraduate graduation year, either actual or expected. I won't go into the various variations of that style, but all the '07 means is that this guy is a senior. Note: The fact that he's in his second semester in his senior year and was never a Crimson executive indicates that he hasn't been a dedicated participant in the paper, to say the least... |
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