Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the staff is on the mark in opposing the creation of an ethnic studies department, it endorses a flawed argument. By embracing the view that academic departments should be created for the purpose of righting political wrongs, it adopts the vocabulary and philosophy of ethnic studies proponents. University departments should not become vehicles for political activism, their role ought to be to deliberatively explore spheres of thought without any underlying ideological motivation...
...mandate to promote ethnic studies. He also believes that ethnic studies should not be a separate department. His reasons for this include administrative problems, but more fundamentally, as he and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles write in the Handbook on Race Relations and the Common Pursuit: "The creation of narrowly defined administrative or curricular entities in the FAS would be misguided. Our faculty do not favor limiting the study of ethnicity to a handful of groups whose own self-determination has been changing over time.... The study of ethnicity at Harvard is, and ought to be, focused...
...current issue of conflict involves the creation of a governing board for PBHA...
They also played Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, a recent addition, and two entirely new pieces, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide and Darius Milhaud's La Creation du Monde...
...Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation. The 87 poems in Ants on the Melon are a fraction of her oeuvre, which runs into the thousands...