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...main thing was rejecting authority in every way I could," he says. "I had zero interest in science. I got out of every science class I could, there was nothing that could predict my becoming a scientist. I rejected academia, I rejected everything. I mean, it was the '60s. When I graduated from high school, I swore up and down that I would never go to college--so, I always felt it was ironic that I ended up in science...
...writer whose work was banned for twelve years by the Russians, Holub has a vested interest in combating ideology wherever he finds it. His wariness of contemporary humanistic academia is more understandable in this context. Under the Communists, the aesthetics of "socialist realism" forced history, literature and art into the service of Marxist ideology. For Holub, scientific research provided the only hope of objectivity in a world of Communist lies, fabrications and distortions...
Rudenstine uses HBS as an example of how globalization is affecting academia...
...surprised that a majority of students who participated in the "Great Grape Referendum" voted to bring grapes back to the dining hall. Who wants to pay homage to political correctness--even in academia, where liberalism is still somewhat fashionable...
...addition to having a commitment to the humanities, Miller was also deeply concerned about the quality of higher education. Cognizant of cultural issues, she worried about the dilution of instruction and the effect of cultural issues on academia...