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...sepia-tinted prairie photograph recalls turn-of-the-century daguerreotypes, and its focus—a laundry line—is a similarly archaic piece of technology. The liner notes reveal that Young’s atavistic tendencies extend to the studio: “Prairie” was recorded and mixed on analog equipment...
Core Curriculum, use those modes of inquiry of yours to look at the opus that brought your predecessor into being. Your progenitor, Core, is caricatured as archaic and uncouth, but the issues we grapple with today—internationalism, ethnocentrism, post-modernism—are all addressed in The Red Book with surprising comprehension, even if unfashionable “ism”-less terms are used...
...Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, homosexuals are prohibited from serving openly in any of the armed services. In the civilian world, this type of discrimination has long been considered unconstitutional; only in the military does this archaic and divisive attitude toward the gay community persist as a matter of protocol. The Pentagon’s refusal to alter its position concerning the service of homosexuals in the military is outrageous...
Although a requirement for history concentrators as well as a Historical Studies B Core course, History 10a lacks an audience, a theoretical underpinning, and a function. The class presumes to cover well over two thousand years of Western history, scrambling to rush from archaic Greece to late antiquity in one month of lectures, the Middle Ages in another month, and the early modern period in what remains. Its only exciting aspect, that it is co-taught by three specialists, proves not to be enough: lecturers, rather than offering original arguments, simply attempt to give centuries the coverage they deserve. This...
...wave of change that has swept Asia has affected nations eager to put their past behind them. In China's Nanjing, archaic buildings that housed "comfort women" will be dismantled to erect skyscrapers. Japan tried to whitewash its militaristic past by culling mention of the rape of Nanjing from history textbooks. Despite the Asian tendency to celebrate the new, many cities have resolved to preserve their traditions. We all need to salvage the best elements from our past before urbanization transforms historic and cultural sites beyond recognition. Victoria Ip Hong Kong...