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...year’s freshmen are the most racially and economically diverse first-year students ever. One-fifth are Asian, one-tenth Hispanic, another tenth black. Two-thirds receive financial aid. To highlight this variety, the Freshman Dean’s Office tomorrow will hold “Community Conversations??—discussions in which freshmen will “situate [themselves] within this diversity...
...Tuesday morning, there are the mandatory “community conversations?? with your entryway, during which you’ll meet with a faculty member to discuss a reading on race and class issues. (Skip Gates, anyone?) This will probably be downright painful...
...ability to leave these “conversations?? whenever we want has another, more sinister dimension. Whenever someone disagrees with that intelligent comment we posted on Huffington Post, we can simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people...
...Indeed, the slightest insensitive insinuation is roundly condemned, its perpetrators publicly renounced, and multicultural organizations tasked to host community “conversations?? and “raise awareness” to repair the damage. One need not unduly exert his memory to find copious examples. The Salient—Harvard’s impeccably edited premier journal of opinion—several years ago printed a parody of a Barbie-type doll marketed in the Middle East to criticize some of the more repressive policies of the region’s regimes. Unsurprisingly, many campus Muslims interpreted...
...said. Bank of America has been working with the Center for Environment since 2006, when it began supporting the “Future of Energy” lecture series. Since then, the bank has extended its funding in order to support two other lecture series: “Green Conversations?? and “Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change.” Daniel P. Schrag, the Center for the Environment’s director, said that Bank of America’s funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities...