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Walter Fox Tree, a Native American who is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, charged that the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Phi Delta Kappa chapter passed him over for the presidency in February because of his heritage...
...rocked with the tough working-class belligerence of the Who, becoming a group whose musical gestures, seconded by corresponding stage gestures, would have created a rock theater that could have enabled John Lennon to enact the psychodrama seething inside his soul." The biographer adds, " 'Selling Out' is the missing chapter in the history of the Beatles. It's the chapter that nobody has ever wanted to write...
Expand Head Start and Chapter 1 programs. For the past two decades, the Federal Government has supported Head Start programs, which provide educational and medical services for disadvantaged preschoolers, and Chapter 1, which offers remedial help for those in higher grades. Both have repeatedly been shown to be beneficial and cost-effective. An annual $500 investment in Head Start, for example, makes it less likely that a child will repeat a grade -- at an average cost to the community of $3,000. Currently, only one out of five eligible children is enrolled in Head Start, and Chapter 1 programs reach...
...clean up their activities. A number have instituted "dry rush" at parties, eliminating the heavy alcohol factor. Even the theme parties that once had such titles as "Beer with the Bros" have changed. Now fraternities sponsor barbecues, volleyball tournaments and even "Tradition Nights," at which alumni speak to the chapter about career opportunities...
Ultimately, Against Therapy amounts to an impassioned diatribe against the very idea of society. Masson does not make this animus particularly clear, but it surfaces occasionally, particularly in his concluding chapter: "Historically therapists have never been in the forefront of the struggle for social change. It is not in the interest of the profession to create conditions that would lead to the dissolution of psychotherapy." This is dime-store utopianism: people would not be unhappy anymore if the world were nicer. And Masson bristles at the notion of control: "Once we give anybody the right to decide who or what...