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Some students who took the course hated it. "Their basic complaint was this," Lewontin says: '"I know it was my fault that I didn't do the work, but I didn't do it because the coercion was absent.' On the one hand they were blaming themselves; on the other hand, they were blaming...
...this old teacher-student relationship absent? To quote Handlin again, "Now we work according to customer and client obligation. You do what is required and you don't do anything more." This is the reason. So many professors do the bare minimum required--the contempt they have for students, and for education itself, makes me furious...
...like St. Paul's," Mr. Garin's calculated reply is that "Lipset presents no overwhelming evidence that bluebloods made up any more than 50 per cent of the 'militants.' "But why such a high proportion from an elite whose interests were supposedly challenged, and who should have been totally absent from SDS? I am not certain either, and look forward to The Crimson's investigative series on this key question. Still, Mr. Garin reports, "The rulers of American society allow the academic elite its measure of independence because scholars have generally aligned with the political and economic elite." But John...
...word of this generation is 'informality,'" Mansfield continues. This has attractive qualities to it, among them friendliness and easy-goingness, he says. But one thing "conspicuously absent" is "formality--respect, pride, daring, sacrifice. If a faculty member wants respect for his learning, his years, his position, if he wants conversation to not be laced with vogue words, he must stay in the Faculty Club." However, Mansfield says, he eats in Eliot House at least once a week...
...economy's more esoteric indicators: garbage collections. Consumers buying fewer goods have less to throw out; sluggish industrial activity is reflected in less waste. In the first three months of 1975, Chicago sanitation workers picked up 200,000 fewer tons than in the first quarter of 1974. Conspicuously absent are the usual numbers of discarded major appliances such as stoves, washing machines and refrigerators. New York City's household and construction wastes dwindled by nearly 1 million tons in 1974, and continue to diminish in 1975. Pickings are slimmer in the Atlanta area too. In Fulton County...