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“How do you measure how drunk someone was at this moment and then an hour later?” Fithian says. “Someone could encounter someone at midnight and they could seem fine, but half an hour later that person could be in a very...
Fifty years after his face to face encounter with McCarthyism, Mendelsohn is one of the more outspoken faculty members on issues of academic freedom that have arisen in the post-Sept. 11 era.
Many students with similar interests “would never in fact encounter each other over the course of their doctoral training,” she says.
In 1987 in South Africa, Gay W. Seidman ’78 confronted riot police and snarling dogs blocking the entrance to the headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The University of California at Berkeley graduate student, already nervous about doing research on the South African labor...
Hegel’s notions of development through struggle also played a key part in forming his philosophical mind-set. “If we have a six-hour debate about world history, our positions will have evolved through the encounter,” he explains. “The...