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...aim is to equip students for life outside of the academy, content must take precedence over method. By jettisoning the focus on historical approaches, the new requirement opens the possibility of choosing from a variety of disciplines with subject matter as the ultimate criterion for inclusion in the list of approved courses. History courses outside of Robinson Hall are not neglected; the report cites courses from current history, sociology and Social Analysis offerings as ones that would fulfill the requirement...
...fact, as well, to come back to this notion that what's being attempted here is to break our will. Friedman has got an interesting piece today on it, if you saw Tom Friedman this morning talking about the extent to which the enemy in this stage in Iraq aim very much at the American people, and public opinion in the United States very sensitive to how to use the media to gain access through technical means that are available now on the Internet and everything else to create as much violence as possible, as much bloodshed as possible...
...religion requirement should be the first to go. It would be foolish to think that the study of religion should not play an important part in educating “citizen[s] of a democracy within a global society,” as the report advances as its underlying aim. Religion has always been important and certainly, recent events seem to have elevated its relevance to understanding human interaction in the modern world. Both before and after 9/11, religious ideas have been among the most potent social forces, animating decisions with profound global implications. But is religion...
...Police opened fire on a group of several dozen Tibetans ascending the 5,700m Nangpa La, a pass linking China and Nepal. "At first I was thinking it was simply warning shots," says an American who watched the scene through binoculars. "The reality is that they were taking direct aim at people trying to cross the pass." As the mountaineers looked on, the guards allegedly shot dead one Tibetan?later identified by the Washington D.C.-based NGO International Campaign for Tibet as Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Buddhist nun?while the others scattered. Shortly after, Chinese border guards marched...
...other departments currently “thinking about or working on” secondary fields. Kenen stressed the importance of considering proposals this fall in order to provide as many seniors as possible with the opportunity to graduate with a secondary field on their transcripts. “The aim right now is to post information on as many approved secondary fields as possible before shopping period in the spring term,” Kenen wrote in an e-mail. If a department misses the fall deadline, it will likely have to wait until after Feb. 15 for consideration...