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...article in the recent Atlantic Monthly Dinesh D'Souza writes of the difficult issues confronting the evolving concept of a liberal education. D'Souza presents a case study of Duke University, and, in a discussion of Black scholars, quotes heavily from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--the Afro-Am scholar who is leaving Duke to come to Harvard next semester. D'Souza writes...
Gates also discusses his recent history of switching from one university job to another (when the article was written, Gates had moved to Duke from Cornell. Now, after only a year at Duke, he is coming to Harvard...
Harvard is still delirious that all-star Afro-Am scholar Henry Louis "Skip" Gates will be coming to Cambridge next fall. But at Duke, from whence Gates hails, things are not as happy. An editorial that ran in the student-run Duke University Chronicle had this to say about Skip Gates...
Although we'll have to wait to pass judgement on Gates, we feel we must call Duke's bluff on one point. Harvard's Afro-Am department is anything but "renowned." "Infamous," maybe, but definitely not "renowned...
...Look Up: When The National ranked Princeton in its preseason top-50, basketball fans across the country may have scoffed. Mentioning Princeton in the same breath as national basketball powerhouses such as Duke and Indiana may have seemed laughable at the time, but the wire services have caught on to the Tigers mystique. The Associated Press poll lists Princeton at number 23 this week, ahead of Big East powerhouses Seton Hall and Georgetown...