Comments on: Do Harvard Students Try to Pass for Poor? http://hpronline.org/hprgument-blog/do-harvard-students-try-to-pass-for-poor/ Harvard Talks Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: In Defense of the Crimson’s Article on HRC Elections « The Harvard Political Review http://hpronline.org/hprgument-blog/do-harvard-students-try-to-pass-for-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-15026 In Defense of the Crimson’s Article on HRC Elections « The Harvard Political Review Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:15:06 +0000 http://hpronline.org/blog/?p=2444#comment-15026 [...] not exactly known for my warm feelings towards the Harvard Crimson, but I’ll defend their decision to run an [...] [...] not exactly known for my warm feelings towards the Harvard Crimson, but I’ll defend their decision to run an [...]

]]> By: Max Novendstern http://hpronline.org/hprgument-blog/do-harvard-students-try-to-pass-for-poor/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Max Novendstern Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:01:05 +0000 http://hpronline.org/blog/?p=2444#comment-308 Agreed. This confuses me. The reason students complain about money is because they're not actively making it. So the standard rich/poor dichotomy kinda collapses with college students: not having "disposable income" is definitely not the same thing as being "poor." And his point about signaling strike me as odd too: there is a pretty standard set of material buy-ins at this school -- eg the pea coat, the blackberry, the mac book -- and none of that communicates "I'm poor!" Agreed. This confuses me.

The reason students complain about money is because they’re not actively making it. So the standard rich/poor dichotomy kinda collapses with college students: not having “disposable income” is definitely not the same thing as being “poor.”

And his point about signaling strike me as odd too: there is a pretty standard set of material buy-ins at this school — eg the pea coat, the blackberry, the mac book — and none of that communicates “I’m poor!”

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