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...vexing about the administration’s crackdown is its manner of interaction with student groups. The College has shown little-to-no interest in learning about the social situations and pressures students actually encounter, and how its policies might affect their circumstances. Instead, its modus operandi is to demand instant, mandatory meetings with group leaders, present them with vague accusations, and refuse to present specific or helpful evidence to deal with the “problem...
...Perhaps this might be acceptable in other less principled societies, where membership does not require a commitment to logic and reason in the spirit of open inquiry,” the UC Executive posits in its memorandum. “In our University community the standard is higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine, a Dean of the College with the temerity to take a decision without properly consulting his colleagues on the UC! The arrogance and inhumanity of it alone is appalling, especially in the broad and frothy wake of the incorrigibly...
...have been asking myself for a long time if the economic effects of climate change will ever put enough of a crunch on the only thing Americans reliably listen to—their wallets—to make them demand change. I still have significant doubt that the answer to my question will ever be yes, but State Farm’s decision is a step in the right direction...
...beginning to think that that’s what it will take for Americans to internalize in their hearts, minds, and wallets—where it really counts—that global warming is a real process, driving freakish, real events. I dare say, that would make them demand change and act to bring it about...
...Criticisms of higher education, Faust said, have resulted in a greater demand for accountability at universities. But, she continued, the measures currently used to judge the institutions, including graduation rates and admissions statistics, do not consider the university's broader purposes...