A taste of the what the real world can be like will prevent or atleast slow down the pointy headed liberals in Harvard before they can feel another statist solution to crime; either that or there will be a campus wide ban on umbrellas.

Anyone ever see Demolition Man?

Yet, there is some hope in a hopeless world. While I understand the point of your post is to point out the assinine view point of the elite, I was moved by the sincerity of the articles ending words

Academia is inherently ill-equipped to deal with the realities of conflict, since it is based on the premise that disputes can be resolved through rational exchange of ideas. Yet violence, whether it happens to squirrels or Harvard undergraduates, is a strange animal. It is sudden, profound, and oblivious to logic and theory.

To see that published in an official Harvard publication deserves not just acknowledgement but praise

During the one robbery the student said “I don’t have time for this.” I laughed when I read that and imagined the mugger saying "don't give me any lip college boy"... real world meets Academia.

"This university is its own, insular community full of people who have been taught from nursery school not to hit and to use their words. We made it to Harvard, in part, because we internalized this lesson particularly well—we use our words a lot, and we are confident that others will do the same."

The term "reality impaired" comes to mind...

The third comment is pure genius:

It's a shame that the writer didn't "use his words" to tell the owner of that dog that it was pointless and cruel to allow it to kill another animal. Timely intervention on his part may well of prevented the senseless violence that he later lamented under the Harvard Crimson masthead.

Ah, right: The owner just didn't know it was "pointless and cruel". But if you'd told him, the "would of" [sic] seen the light immediately.

Either that, or he would've "used his own words" to tell our hero to fuck off. "Senseless violence"? Give me strength...

The university as "insular community." I thought diversity was supposed to combat this. Are diversity efforts, then, a sham or just a failure? Maybe Harvard needs to recruit some diversity students who are not oblivious to the logic of, and theories about, violence.

I'll bet a dollar the dog owner had no idea that Fifi could, you know, actually do the Dog Thing.

I'm all for some diversity here. They need less Condition White, more Yellow and even, perhaps, a little Crimson.

there are, sadly, no end of dog owners who have no clue as to what exactly they own. seeing dear little fifi gleefully tear some rodent apart may very well be just what the doctor ordered; a little reminder that the wolf is never very deeply buried in any dog's head.

Does anybody remember Tom Lehrer's FIGHT FIERCELY HARVARD? This was done back in the fifties, I think. It runs:

Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they possess the might,
Nonetheless we have the will.

How we will celebrate our victory,
We shall invite the whole team up for tea. (How jolly!)
Hurl that spheroid down the field,
And fight, fight, fight!

Fight fiercely, Harvard, fight, fight, fight!
Impress them with our prowess, do!
Oh, fellas, do not let the crimson down,
Be of stout heart and true.

Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name!
Won't it be peachy if we win the game? (Oh, goody!)
Let's try not to injure them,
But fight, fight, fight!
Let's not be rough, though!
Fight, fight, fight!
And do fight fiercely!
Fight, fight, fight!

Plus ca change, plus ca meme!!!

Luke Angelo
Macon, Georgia
Home of C. Joke Ellis, Mayor (until he changes his name to Hakim Mansour Ellis in honor of his recent conversion on the Road To Damascus. He is also one of three Georgia mayors who signed onto Bloomberg's anti-gun cabal)