Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 8th editorial entitled "A Common Academic Ground," it is suggested that increased faculty accessibility could prevent incidents like that which occured recently in Historical Studies A-25, where students charged Professor Stephan A. Thernstrom with racial insensitivity. If only students and faculty communicated better, says the editorial, then they could define the boundaries of academic discourse and avoid future misunderstandings. Such thinking is seriously flawed...
Even more troubling, however, is the editorial's suggestion that there may be theories whose "offensiveness outweighs any claims to academic common understanding of what can and cannot be accepted in academic discourse." Who is to decide what is offensive? And on what grounds? Are professors to be hindered from pursuing Veritas simply because vocal elements in the Harvard student body may be offended? Such intellectual intimidation is intolerable. Discourse must continue unfettered, even if there are those who prejudge all that deviates from the conventional wisdom. The academic community polices itself as junior faculty face review by tenure committees...
Deadweight Loss, a four-member student band which writes most of its own music, will kick off the series of Friday night performances in the Cabot Junior Common Room. Organizers say they hope the concert will enliven the social life at the Quad and give student bands more exposure...
...such mundane matters as coherence or chronology. The play demands complete attention from the audience at all times. But it's an absorbing and challenging play, and the Dunster production rescues it from a potential mire of complications and communicates its full, disturbing potential in the miniscule Junior Common Room...
World employs two common themes of Restoration comedies: courtly manners and the difficulties of love. There is a great deal of witty dialogue and a plot involving a series of deceptions and betrayals that eventually lead to a union of two lovers. Unfortunately, the two pages of background information included in the program do little to aid the audience's constant struggle to figure out who is doing what to whom...