Crimson opinion writer
Tommy Barone
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A More Democratic Student Government Wouldn’t Have Elections
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The original sin of this school comes with awkwardly fitting a fractured template for representative government from the outside world onto a community small enough to lead itself cooperatively. To absolve it, we must choose something different, better — a politics of direct democracy, of personality, and of action.
The SAT Doesn’t Matter: A Case for Economic Affirmative Action
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If Harvard cares about diversity of perspective, about being a place for ordinary people, and about being plain old fair, it must drastically alter how it accounts for wealth in admissions.
What Criticisms of Grade Inflation Really Tell Us
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Criticisms of grade inflation mistakenly take a handful of letters to represent a potent educational spirit that goes much deeper. But in perhaps a greater way, they grasp a truth of Harvard we would all do well to admit.