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...palatable than its competition. The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, which has offered its curriculum since 1993, claims a bigger market (382 schools in 37 states) than the newcomer (85 school districts in 30 states). But its 1999 edition reportedly recommended materials from something called the Creation Evidence Museum; a "question for reflection" in the 2005 version suggested that the logistics of Noah's Ark would have been more manageable if some of the animals were babies or hibernating. In 2002 a Florida district court ruled unconstitutional a course that critics claim was loosely based...
...TAKING CARE OF BUSINESSWhen he took office last July, Bok said that his top priority was bringing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review to a close. Bok “is no foreigner to curricular revision,” Mendelsohn said, given that he oversaw the creation of the current Core Curriculum in 1979 and 1980. He has also penned six books on higher education, and said he hopes to write one or two more in his retirement. But instead of playing an active role in drafting the new curriculum, Bok’s strategy has been...
...leaders of student organizations see their groups as venues for collaboration as much as community. According to Ho of the Asian-American Women’s Association, “We hope the role that AAWA plays is something that promotes forward-thinking, the creation of some kind of community that can be respectful of, but can also cross cultural boundaries.” Similarly, Lee says, “There’s always room for more collaboration, not just between black students and other students, but between Muslims and Christians, between Republicans and Democrats, etcetera...
...added that the Arab League, which she cited as part of the anti-Israel lobby, was founded to oppose Israel’s creation and has since focused on anti-Israel activities...
However, as I think about the ways in which Facebook has revolutionized the college experience, I can’t help but wonder if this toddler-aged creation is a modern-day version of Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale about scientific experimentation gone awry may appear to be incompatible with Zuckerberg’s baby, but I’m realizing the real postmodern Prometheus is now a top-ten global website with repercussions far greater than drunken pokes...