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Indeed, administrators say that a complete understanding of the concerns raised in recent years can only be made in the larger context of higher education and instituional history...
...separate sharply the psychological from the logical”—to distinguish clearly the reasons why we ought to hold our beliefs from the contingencies, causes and baser instincts that might explain why we do hold them. It seems like an obvious point, especially in the context of Frege’s philosophy of mathematics; to see why the Pythagorean Theorem is true, we don’t need to know anything about Pythagoras or his mood that fateful morning...
Nana Akua Asafu-Agyei, a Yale student who serves on the Executive Committee, says that while students are, indeed, sometimes closer to cases than the faculty, they can also bring a better understanding of the surrounding context...
...It’s not that [New York is] more intellectually stimulating,” says Associate Professor of Government Eva Bellin. “It’s a context that provides professional and economic opportunities for dual career couples...
Over the next week, the media frenzy intensified. As with any number of stories this year involving Harvard and controversy, the media took the story and ran with it, except this time it was already amplified by its Sept. 11 context. Yasin, Levey and Galper were featured on various talk shows and in reports, and The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe all filed stories...