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...holy shrines in Mecca and Medina. The King also poured cash into scores of new Islamic universities, which began churning out thousands of fresh religious activists. "But something unexpected happened," notes a former Western diplomat in Riyadh. "Instead of this wonderful utopia, where young men were attracted to academia to learn about Islam, you got thousands of religious graduates who couldn't find jobs...
...goals of the IOP are to help inspire students into careers in public service or politics and to bridge the gap between academia and politics,” said Heather Woodruff ’03, IOP student projects chair. “If other student groups accomplish this in their own way, then we are happy to help them...
...with the end to structural anti-Semitism in the 1960s, Freedman says Jews began to flourish in top levels of academia and were well-placed to move into top positions a couple of decades later...
...There are an awful lot of extremely talented people of Jewish faith in academia and, you know, it would be odd if we did not have a Jewish president,” Bok said...
...during Vietnam, war is also breeding some hot disputes within academia. Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, raised a local furor when he wrote in the Houston Chronicle that the Sept. 11 attacks were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism" committed by the U.S.--for instance, in Vietnam, Central America and Iraq. That led university president Larry Faulkner to write the newspaper a letter defending Jensen's right to his views but calling him "a fountain of undiluted foolishness on issues of public policy." At the University of North Carolina, faculty...