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...Last week, three advisory board members of the Bruin Alumni Association (BAA), including Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom, resigned from their posts in protest of the new measures, which Thernstrom described as “over the line...
...Thernstrom, who has taught at UCLA and is considered one of Harvard’s most conservative professors, said he was contacted by the BAA at its founding last year and agreed to join in support of its goal to promote objectivity in the classroom...
...Thernstrom said that two major problems facing higher education today are “a growing gulf between political and ideological beliefs” and a “teach your own politics” approach by faculty members. He said he joined the BAA to “combat this tendency and encourage a more balanced view on what’s going on in the world...
...showed them to Bangkok director Prachya Pinkaew. The filmmaker was dazzled but had problems getting backing for a film with Jaa in the lead role. "Thai audiences are not used to seeing people from the northeast in the lead," says Sita Vosbein, managing director of Pinkaew's production house, Baa Ram Ewe. "They think people with dark skin are uneducated and ugly. They are always cast as bad guys." When the film was a hit, Jaa felt accepted at last. "I have never been so proud," he says. "I've been fighting discrimination since I was very young. For people...
...helped shepherd the organization and the marathon through years of change and growth while striving to maintain the integrity of both the organization and its events. Mr. Cloney’s vision for the BAA Marathon was progressive in that he viewed it as a community-wide event which other marathons would come to emulate,” Guy Morse, the current BAA director, said in a written statement...