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...Quad houses before their arrival, which would apparently condemn them to a miserable year of dread and anxiety. In reality, however, a year of being involved in the vibrant communities of the Quad houses is possibly the best way to attempt to alleviate the stigma of being Quad-ed. The adjustments that most Quad sophomores make in their first semester could be made gradually over a whole year, easing the transition to Harvards most remote Houses...
...impending compromise between methods and values, the outlines of which have already begun to take shape, it is crucially important that we remember why we study the West. While Maier believes that Western values should no longer be privileged in the way they were during Harvards pre-Core, Gen Ed days, he also adds that, from one perspective, Western values should be deprivileged because of their worldwide diffusion. From this point of view, studying the West is really about understanding the basis of a global culture that many feel is emerging. The West won, and so a firm grounding...
Studying the West in an appropriate way means recognizing the central role that Western thought plays right now, in whatever way one chooses to acknowledge it, and then seeking to discover the origins of that thought. Harvards World War II-era Gen Ed curriculum put Western thought on a pedestal. And the Core tried its best to make Western thought non-essential to graduation (even as most departments ensured their students would be firmly grounded in it). Going forward, the Committee on General Education must simply accord the West the same treatment it gives other subjects. Dont privilege...
...idea to have homosexuals in the seminary. It would be a lot like having co-ed showers in college." BRIAN SAINT-PAUL, editor of Crisis magazine, a Catholic journal, on word that the Vatican is beginning a survey of U.S. seminaries for "evidence of homosexuality," in an effort to prevent even celibate gays from becoming priests...
...ed “Putting Blame Where it Belongs” (Sep. 12), Mark A Adomanis asks the question, “Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government?” In truth, Gov. Blanco declared a state of emergency well before the hurricane’s landfall...