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...departure in recent years of three Graduate School of Education (GSE) professors who specialized in race relations and civil rights is causing concern and discussion among the school’s affiliates about the need for more faculty of color in GSE’s ranks and a greater focus on race in the school’s curriculum.Last Wednesday, hundreds of students and professors congregated in the Gutman Conference Center for an open forum to address how the school should move forward after the departure of Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary Orfield.Orfield, one of the founder?...
...with such intensity. Leverett House, for one, stuck to the reliable T-shirts and goodie bags with rabbit candies, representing the House’s mascot, according to new Leverett resident Azeemah Kola ’10. But, she added, spectacle wasn’t her primary concern. “I’m actually really happy because I really just wanted to be on the River, and I really didn’t want to be in Dunster or in the Quad,” Kola said. Echoing this sentiment, Callie L. Pinkas ‘10, upon...
...with such intensity. Leverett House, for one, stuck to the reliable T-shirts and goodie bags with rabbit candies, representing the House’s mascot, according to new Leverett resident Azeemah Kola ’10. But, she added, spectacle wasn’t her primary concern. “I’m actually really happy because I really just wanted to be on the River, and I really didn’t want to be in Dunster or in the Quad,” Kola said. Echoing this sentiment, Caroline L. Pinkas ‘10, upon...
...action; it is gathering steam but its whistle has not yet rung. It awaits its champions. It has found one in Al Gore; it could use many others. As she sets the tone for academic institutions everywhere, Faust can show the world that the environment must be a cardinal concern for both institutions and young leaders. The radiating effects of the Harvard presidency have already been seen in the news coverage of her appointment; let her now use that power to lead...
Some secularists are worried about who will teach the literacy classes. Joe Conn and Rob Boston of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have expressed a concern about how teachers willing to give the Bible secular treatment would be found, particularly in states where vast majorities are evangelical. They note that Stetson's history sections are almost exclusively positive. "A textbook should offer objective study about both the positive and negative uses of the Bible," Conn writes. "Where is the analysis of the role of the Bible in the Inquisition or the Salem witch trials?" They specifically...