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...should be taken into account what is now on the Corporation and what kind of experience and personal qualities will add most to the group," Steiner said. "If you had three or four lawyers, you would not consider another lawyer. If you had no academics, you might look to academia...
...programs are designed to funnel people into academia," Blackman said. She said that Harvard had made a conscious effort "to increase the number of minorities receiving Ph.Ds to address what we foresaw then as going to be a problem in the future...
...English department is long. One valid complaint is the department's disregard of the literature of minorities and colonized peoples. But the argument for increased representation of these literatures in the canon is complicated, and detracts from the more immediate question of the fate of American literature in academia. With the nearly catastrophic state of secondary education in America, our people are woefully ignorant of the shape of their own culture. A culture that cannot assume responsibility for itself certainly cannot assume responsibility for another. A country that cannot distinguish its intellectual history from its former motherland cannot claim adherence...
...Case of Emergency," effectively skewers yuppiedom's jejune New Age spirituality. And Teachout, in "A Farewell to Politics," argues plausibly that the great ideological battles of the '90s will be fought over culture, a word he defines broadly enough to include abortion; family policy; and "sensitivity fascism" in American academia (which he describes elsewhere in the book as "a thoroughly uncongenial intellectual retirement home for tenured radicals...
...other burning issue for student's the sweeping tax rollback sponsored by the Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT)--Question 3 on this year's ballot. Many state education leaders contend that the CLT petition would devastate academia in Massachusetts, and students across the state have taken an active interest in the petition's fate...