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...scholarship. They must publish, research, direct the training of future scholars, serve on endless committees--no wonder the undergraduate is a burden. If they try to make time for teaching, Harvard smiles and turns them away. Besides, the undergraduate is often inarticulate, ill-prepared. Many Harvard professors showed their contempt for the undergraduate by fiercely resisting Glen Bowersock's attempt to reform tutorials. When Bowersock tried to force professors to teach tutorials--and thus to participate in the formative educational experience of the undergraduate--they balked. It would take too much time. And if they had to teach a tutorial...
...COMMUNICATION, and the majority of faculty, administrators, and students have demonstrated that they do not care about that. For if faculty shy away from students in the lecture hall, they shut them out of the committee room. Many, although by no means all, faculty and administrators extend their intellectual contempt for students to a political contempt. They dismiss the undergraduate's calls for change as naive or hypocritical. Students do not think of the institution but themselves, the argument runs, and it is the administrator's responsibility to look out for Harvard. These administrators blanch if you suggest that...
...fashioning their works for their own aesthetic. Now an artist who exhibits individuality and originality is to be praised, and one who sets no limits to his scope of experimentation is to be treasured, but there is a thin line separating these qualities from arrogance toward and contempt for the audience, and that line is being crossed far too often these days...
Only a year ago, Gandhi had spent a week in jail for contempt of parliament; she is still facing four court cases involving abuses of power during the 21-month emergency dictatorship she established in 1975. In this week's national election, however, she was likely to regain her parliamentary seat; her son, Sanjay, out of prison on appeal, was also expected to be elected to parliament...
...disciplining of Küng for "contempt" of church doctrinal authority came only three days after the Vatican had questioned another top theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands. Panciroli said the juxtaposition of the two events was coincidental, but that sidestepped the main point. As one Vatican official put it privately, "John Paul II is cracking down, and he is picking the big ones first." To other observers in Rome, the only question is: Who will be next...