Word: discontentedness
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The decision by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan to place yet another no-confidence motion on the docket of the Feb. 28 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting is an unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory...
Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering...
Bashar al-Hroub gouges a square of chipboard with a chisel until the image of a woman's genitals emerges. The 27-year-old Palestinian artist is making prints for an exhibit that will highlight "things that are forbidden in our society," he says. Denounced in his own village near...
To get there, the system needs to be revamped. How? There are a lot of ideas. But nothing’s going to happen until people become discontented with the status quo. And this cannot happen until they understand just how dysfunctional the current system is, and above all, just...
As much as today's students are demonstrating against social injustice, they may also be protesting the fact that they are so often labeled credential-craving moneygrubbers. Yale Protest Organizer Tom Keenan, for one, argues that student idealism has not gone the way of the slide rule. Says he: "A...