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Favorite building to teach in: Barker Center...
Brought forth by Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59, the proposal suggested that the department offer students an alternative to the first semester of the popular Core, Social Analysis 10: “Introduction to Economics,” colloquially known as “Ec 10” and taught by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...
...seemed especially precious, like quinine in a malarial climate. Clutching handfuls of tissues, I dragged myself to the couch, turned on The Today Show, and settled in for a therapeutic television marathon that, I calculated, would culminate with The Price Is Right. I planned not to move until Bob Barker had reminded us all of the importance of spaying and neutering our pets...
...term papers and major administrative policy changes. It is the season when green goo is sprayed over the Yard’s bare spots to approximate verdure and encourage growth; when grad students emerge like squirrels from their hollows to bask with Bordieu and Benjamin in front of the Barker Center amidst the cigarette butts...
Although Garber, speaking in a roomful of fellow humanities professors, may have been preaching to the converted, I think her speech has implications outside of the walls of the Barker Center. What is most troubling about this war is the Bush administration’s use (or misuse) of language, its refusal to confront the moral complexities of a situation that makes its moral platitudes irrelevant and irresponsible. As we go barreling into a war that involves regional instability and international discord, it seems reckless to have only two words in our diplomatic arsenal: “good?...