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...Although presidents and deans must encourage faculty to play a central role, through incentives and funds, the responsibility ultimately lies with the faculty to enact necessary changes, Bok said. He called these reforms the “new process of enlightened trial and error.” The author of the 2006 book, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok urged colleges to abandon distributive requirements for comprehensive requirements. “We should renounce the simple distribution requirements, which are the staple for most college curriculum, and try to do a better job of identifying what...
...Crusade” (Dec. 6) by Jonathan J. Lehman ’08 was hurtful and unacceptable would be an understatement. Not only were the actions of Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper taken out of context, but an inappropriate comparison has been drawn between Harvard and Dartmouth, which the author wrongfully claims are “in...similar position[s]” regarding this issue. Further, the tone and wording of the article seem deliberately cruel to and ignorant of the native community on Harvard’s own campus...
...consolation that this was meant to refer to an athletic team, as the further dehumanization of the “Indian” moniker—no matter how tongue-in-cheek—only contributes to the politically correct debate that the author so sarcastically laments. Furthermore, the examples cited compare Native Americans to animals and, as is the case of the Trojan mascot, insinuate that real native peoples no longer exist, only their descendents. This type of characterization and generalization, in addition to the hostile tone in which the article is written, is hurtful and ignorant. It renders...
Park, the officially-credited author of “The Study Revolution That Moved Harvard,” says it’s a common practice for autobiographies of Koreans, even of high-profile figures, to be written by professional writers—and she’s no exception...
Diana Meehan, Ph.D, co-founded the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles in 1995. She is the author of “Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of Their...