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During her junior year at Smith College, Diana L. Eck enrolled in a study abroad program that took her to Benares, an Indian holy city which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world...
...found myself in a position of having to learn from scratch about a culture which I knew almost nothing about," says Eck, who decided to make the trip to India because she felt restive at the time of the Vietnam War and was increasingly aware of how little she knew about Asia. She was so enchanted by her experience there that she decided to embark on an academic career largely focused on the history and religion of India...
...spring, the University--under Lewis' direction--named Diana L. Eck as master of Lowell House, doubling the current number of female House masters. Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who will become master of Leverett House in the fall, is touted as a supporter of undergraduate women in the sciences...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, made a most peculiar statement in The Crimson last Friday (March 13) when discussing the new Lowell House master, Diana L. Eck. Lewis said, "There's a natural resonance between her scholarly life and the position she will be taking at the head of this very diverse House...
...Lewis's claim that Professor Eck's scholarship in comparative religion and Indian studies resonates with Lowell House is clearly fatuous but benign. His characterization of Lowell House, on the other hand, illustrates the malign instinct in the academy to worship at the cult of "diversity...