Word: botstein
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...interpret important regions of the genome, then -- as better technology became available -- proceed to reading the entire genetic message. Most of the remaining critics were silenced last fall when the NIH chose the respected Watson as project director. Still, some scientists remain wary of the project. Says David Botstein, a vice president at Genentech and a member of the Human Genome Advisory Committee: "We need to test its progress, regulate its growth and slap it down if it becomes a monster. Jim Watson understands the dangers as well...
Adler's critics, of whom there are many, dismiss him as a hip shooter, the fastest opinion west of the Hudson but not worth serious attention. Yet Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, admires Adler's contentiousness. Adler has fought for the idea, says Botstein, that thought "is too important to be left to the Ph.D.s." Declares Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: "He's taken cherished institutions by the scruff of the neck and said, 'Enough...
...more controversial programs: Goucher College's 100th-anniversary gift of two scholarships at 1885 rates ($100 per year), and Fairleigh Dickinson's "twofdr," under which a student's sibling can enter at half the regular tuition of $5,670. One critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among the top ten in their high school classes, Botstein says, "We've thrown a gauntlet down to other places on the issues of quality...
Even when these enthusiasts do bend to the current pressures for law-and-order, they tend to do it in their own dreamy way. At Bard, where President Leon Botstein decided last year that all students should attend an intensive three-week workshop on how to think and write, the students pondered such questions as the nature of justice. What color is justice? What shape is it? What sound does it make? What does it eat? "I can't think of anything," one student protested at the first such writing class. "Don't worry about it," the teacher...
...years ago, Adler, director of the Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research, formed the Paideia Group, a panel of 22 educators and scholars who held a series of conferences seeking a new approach to public schooling. Among the participants: former Columbia University Provost Jacques Barzun, Bard College President Leon Botstein, Editor and Critic Clifton Fadiman...