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Still, sociologists who study teens say the rules are also a by-product of the hyperprotective parenting characteristic of baby boomers. "There's a disconnect between all this regulating and the dangers kids actually face," says Barbara Risman, head of the sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She says the strictures have a downside: "Taking away the ability to exercise choices might not allow teens to learn to make decisions and live with the consequences...
Lewis also said that many of the problems universities encounter are due to a “consumerist” culture in which institutions cater to students’ desire for immediate gratification. He added that problems also stem from the disconnect between the missions of a research university and an undergraduate college...
...country, it would seem as though they should have some sort of familiarity with the military.” Panelist John H. Silva, a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, agreed, stating that there is “an enormous disconnect between the military and the elite in this country—just look at Congress.” The panel represented diverse military experiences, with former or current members of the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Army, and Navy represented, as well as the Norwegian and Finnish militaries. The group...
...Division One teams, then so be it. But Harvard must also accept the consequences of that policy. One of the most obvious of these consequences is that the two admissions tracks into Harvard—one for athletes and one for everyone else—institutionalize the disconnect between athletes and non-athletes that former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 laments. Lewis holds students and people like former Princeton president William G. Bowden responsible for not regarding athletes as “regular students,” and charges that this attitude...
We’re interested in seeing the whole chronology of art.” Cooper says he worries that museums devoted exclusively to 20th-century art might create a disconnect between modern artists and their past...