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...University has not been totally blind to this increasingly pervasive problem, but its remedies have been superficial at best. Older interdisciplinary programs such as social studies and history and literature allow students to think across departmental lines, but there are no endowed Faculty chairs for either program, discouraging any real collaborative research among Faculty. A newer program, the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative begun by President Neil Rudenstine in 1993, was designed specifically to bridge the gap between disciplines studying questions related to the mind. The program’s website claims that, “we aim to bring...
Understandable—but nonetheless misguided. This unconditional devotion to the government is anathema to democracy. Blind supporters think they are being patriotic, but in fact, they weaken the institutions they seek to protect. If we don’t speak up against the ills of our own governments, we relinquish the safeguards of democracy. And if the government then leads the nation astray, we become complicit in its crimes...
...Dublin or London. There is a lot of “post-” to the small lakeside village of By the Lake: post-World War II, post-migration, post-soccer riots, post-Irish Republican Army. It is a place where grandparents tune into “Blind Date” but do not have telephones; where combine machines ease the labor of the summer hay harvest; and where a sheep rancher supplements his income by writing for an ad agency in London...
SUMMERS: (overheard by audience) Sure is. You know, the power of the proletarian masses turned me towards the political light. I’ve been born again, I tell you. Once was lost but now I’m found, blind but now I see, yada yada yada. Made nice with Cornel West, joined the Green Party and whatnot. Listen, let’s give the janitors $11.35 an hour. Can I get an amen...
Given that as a backdrop, Walton’s hopes for an NCAA berth may sound like a captain’s blind exuberance, but that’s not the case...