To the Highest Bidder

Harvard should auction admission spots to close budget shortfall

By Michael W. McLean

A plummeting endowment and a recessionary economy brought the nation’s richest university to a spending freeze last fall, and as a harsh economic reality penetrated the Ivy Tower, generous spending turned into sharp spending cuts. Read more

Where Did Those Come From?

Chairs in the Yard detract from Harvard’s ambiance

By Jordan A. Monge

After a summer at home surrounded by the stucco and cement of southern California, I was looking forward to the beautiful Georgian architecture of Harvard College. Read more

An Untimely Death

Massachusetts Democrats seek an electoral double-standard

By Michael E. Cowett

Quick: who’s Charles Gibbons? Newland Holmes? Neither, to be sure, is a house­hold name. Read more

The Education President

Republicans can work with Obama on a critical issue

By Dhruv K. Singhal

From Sarah Palin’s peculiar resignation to the extramarital indiscretions of John Ensign and Mark Sanford, the summer of 2009 was a tawdry spectacle indeed. Read more

The Pitfalls of Symbolic Thinking

Harvard minorities make dubious use of the ‘race card’

By Roger G. Waite

It does not take keen observation to notice that the crimes and other police action at Harvard that get the most attention are the ones given racial colorings. Read more

Separated by Unity

Proliferation of ethnic groups harms cause of diversity

By Luis A. Martinez, Jr.

This year’s activities fair on the Quad allowed the Harvard student body to discover an amazing array of student organizations, celebrating a culture of varying views, religions, backgrounds, and expe­riences. Read more

‘You Lie!’

Congressman Wilson’s remarks are naturally democratic

By Patrick T. Brennan

Last week, Republican Representative Joseph Wilson of South Carolina stunned both sides of the aisle by interrupting President Obama’s speech on health care to shout, “You lie!” Read more

An Arm and a Leg

History suggests expanding health coverage will be costly

By Peyton R. Miller

This year’s health care debate has seen countless allusions to universal health care abroad, with the implication that coverage in the United States is woefully inferior to that available in other modernized countries. Read more

Free Speech on Main Street

Listen up–the people are talking

By Anthony J. Bonilla

Over the summer congressional recess, America was a simmering pot of debate on health care reform. Read more

True Health Care Reform

The Obama plan is not the answer

By Christopher L. Oppermann

President Obama’s current health care proposal, contrary to its stated goals, will not remedy our national problem of rising costs for health care. Read more

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