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...what I did at that point as an appropriate and positive thing, something I should be rewarded for," Johnson said yesterday. "If that is used as a negative criterion in evaluating my candidacy [for the assistant deanship], then what that says is that a positive criteria would have been that someone in a similar situation would not have said that...
Officials said their criteria for the post included management experience, familiarity with an academic environment and respect from peers and those in the media...
...Dershowitz argues that "the paradigm of the scientific method...is not the only criteria [sic] for evaluating academic undertakings." He makes the interesting observation that "[i]f Dr. Mack had taught at the Divinity School, it is unlikely that any investigation would be tolerated, since divinity schools are not governed by the laws of science." He's quite right of course, but I fail to see how this is relevant. Dr. Mack is a member of the Faculty of Medicine. Schools differ not only in their areas of intellectual interest but also in the methods of study used by their...
...government to spend some of their tax money in preserving and amplifying their culture and their history, even if this effort works with less than 75% efficiency--which would still be better than the rate of the Pentagon's extravaganza. Some would argue that this is one of the criteria of political enlightenment. Why not in America...
...probably won't survive at all. Its critics charge it with spending too much on grants to individual artists, but this is untrue--in fact, such grants account for only 4% of its budget. It's more important for the NEA to get rid of all its bogus democratic criteria, the therapeutic fustian of "self-esteem" and "empowerment" through art for this locality or that minority. Leave that to state arts councils (if they still want it, which they shouldn't either); in art there should be no such entitlements. The NEA should be more elitist--rigorously so, in fact...