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...Assuming that most people understand the moral implications of her excuse—regarding the African as a subpar human being with inferior mental capacities??I won’t argue why I find such an implicit characterization both inflammatory, especially as the son of a North African, and dehumanizing. What makes the characterization worse, however, is that my project leader is an intelligent graduate of Makerere University—the most prestigious institution of its kind in Uganda—who is considering furthering her education at the London School of Economics and says her ultimate goal...
...1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities?? were up to the challenge. Co-education was, of course, unthinkable, even when bright young Bostonian women were pounding on the doors. Eliot could barely imagine the consequences of trying “…to teach together sets of persons, who like young men and young women, differ widely in regard to sensibility, quickness, docility...
Surely, then, it must be best for the University—one which wishes, according to the Curricular Review report, to “help students develop their capacities??for responsible judgment”—to invest in the arms trade, in ecological disaster, in the terrorizing of workers in Colombia, in the military dictatorship in Burma, or until last spring, in genocide in Darfur...
...letter, Summers made no such pledge for future relief efforts. Instead, he wrote that the University’s “primary and most important response” would be to encourage students, faculty, and staff to draw upon their “unique capacities?? to provide aid, and that Harvard would seek to better coordinate these efforts.In addition to marshalling the skills of Harvard community members, Summers wrote that the University would “consider making various kinds of support available” to Harvard groups that organize fundraisers or other types of relief efforts.Summers...
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