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...This is not to say there weren’t grounds for parents’ concerns??€”the language used by the Department of Education in the preparatory materials was not the wisest selection—but the speech wasn’t the grand oratory of progressive principles many conservatives feared. And it certainly wasn’t the Democratic equivalent of President Reagan’s 1988 back-to-school speech, which unabashedly preached the virtues of free enterprise, low taxes, and free trade...
...enrich the work. At the outset, Naipaul sets himself to the task of investigating Africa and its politics through its people and their experiences. He laments the myopic Western focus on African politicians, not Africans themselves, “The book will arise, I hope, out of my own concerns??€”or, if you prefer, obsessions. What do terms like ‘liberation,’ ‘revolution,’ ‘socialism,’ actually mean to the people—i.e. the masses—who experience them...
...while the limits on J-Term housing have been largely billed as a necessity of budget restrictions, similar to other cuts undertaken recently by the university, we sense that the primary reason for limiting housing during January actually stems from a very different set of concerns??€”namely, fear in the administration that students will misbehave without highly structured activities to occupy their time and without a full residential staff to monitor them. In April, Dean of Students Evelynn M. Hammonds said that after the decision was made not to provide January programming, administrators did not want idle students...
...disciplines is the periodic debate over the curriculum, which, each time results in a consensus that may last for a decade or more. We debate over which of our disciplines matter—and to what degree in today’s world of business, politics, warfare, and health concerns??€”with the intent to decide the mental shape of the next generation’s ruling class...
...account when making employment cut decisions. Selsby added that FAS IT will be hiring additional students to assist on special projects throughout the year. In addition to cutting back on student employees, FAS IT has eliminated the position of student supervisor—responsible for helping UAs address difficult concerns??€”transferring their responsibilities to full-time FAS IT employees and grad students who are trained in the same skills as full-time staff. Both students said that most UAs did not support this change because full-time employees are less accessible and said they found it easier...