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Arizona has stepped back into the proverbial ethnic boxing ring again with Senate Bill 1070, which was signed by current Governor Jan K. Brewer, and House Bill 2281, which was pushed mainly by Superintendent of Public Instruction Thomas C. Horne ’67 (Horne is also running for the...

Author: By Carl L. Miller | Title: Razing Arizona | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

To begin with, Harvard has been overall unsuccessful in its attempts to provide a liberal-arts education. The burden of unexciting, core survey courses combined with fairly strict and rigorous concentration requirements provide for very little room to truly experiment. On top of this, the cutthroat environment around letter grades...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Although interdisciplinary thinking can drive productive and broad discourse between, say, the sciences and the humanities, what of the insights gained at the interface of different fields within the domain of the natural sciences? The mining of such productive friction is a hallmark of science today. Cell biologists collaborate with...

Author: By Robert A. Lue | Title: Science and the Liberal Arts | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Introducing undergraduates to an interdisciplinary perspective on science is often positioned as antagonistic to delving deeply into the concepts and methods of individual fields, which perhaps explains why the latter so often precedes the former in traditional curricula. This antagonism is a fallacy, and  is one that threatens to...

Author: By Robert A. Lue | Title: Science and the Liberal Arts | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

In 2006, Akash Maharaj was accepted as a transfer student to Yale with perfect As in the 18 courses on his Columbia transcript and an extremely positive recommendation from a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures. The problem was, as the Yale Daily News points out, "none...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wheeler Wasn't the Only One | 5/24/2010 | See Source »

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