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Matory attributes part of the dearth to "special financial exigencies" facing many potential minority Ph.D.'s. "It's hard to decide to go into academia when you know it's unlikely you'll earn much money for ail of the years you study," he says...
...last century, for example, there were leaders of academia in this country who opposed allowing the infiltration of Darwin's ideas into American education, out of a misplaced fear that the theory of natural selection undermined belief in a Creator. And until the dramatic court-room duel between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evolution was still contestable subject matter for the classroom...
There is a double-standard in today's academia. While faith on God has been purged from education in the name of religious freedom, disbelief in God has been evangelicized in its place. Science classes, once the haven of facts and theories backed by empirical evidence, should not become the pulpit, even inadvertently, for the preaching of atheism. Purely subjective arguments, like those that the evolution of life was "unplanned" and without purposeful design, should be recognized for what they are: religious theories, not scientific facts...
Daniel Choi's opinion piece, Multicultural Malaise (January 27, Crimson) fails to acknowledge the silences which pervade intercultural discourse in American and on this campus. An Ethnic Studies program would gather together the voices and experiences of peoples who, if recognized at all within current academia, are only footnotes to the more established canon...
Yale, New Haven's walled bastion of upper-echelon academia, has several violent, crime- and drug-filled neighborhoods no more than a few paces from many of its classrooms. From one street to the next, there is a sudden shift from heaven to hell...