Word: centricity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe outgrows its postwar political arrangements, the Soviet Union experiments with captialism, and Japan becomes a major international actor, a Harvard education remains constricted to a few city blocks in Cambridge. What a shame. The time has come for Harvard to discard its Cambridge-o-centric academic arrogance and let its students create a more international experience for themselves...
EVEN BEFORE page one, the Harvard-centric nature of The Class is apparent, as Segal quotes William James on the joy of being a "son of Harvard," and notes that James received his M.D. (Harvard, of course) in 1869. Later, he also cites John Updike '54, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 (1821, that is), e.e. cummings '15, ad nauseum. Most irritating, though, is his choice of members of the Class...
...Third World Studies departments/committees, University publications' coverage of Third World issues, lack of commitment to a Third World Center, etc.), but it also feels that Third World students don't deserve to be here on an academic level. Even our role of bringing diversity to the University's Euro-centric atmosphere is in question: Klitgaard is "uncertain" of the benefits of diversity to the students body in general...