Word: endeavoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly be doubted that the study of black men in America is a legitimate and urgent academic endeavor. If is be so and if we are determined to launch this field of study successfully, farsighted goals and programs are required. These goals and programs should maintain and even raise academic standards; should have meaning for all serious students--black and white. We believe that the path proposed by us conforms to these standards...
...April 7 communique is unacceptable. The proposed format does nothing but add independent studies to the already-existing majors at this university. Further, the communique presupposes tat Afro-American Studies is less than a legitimate and valid intellectual endeavor. We reject this notion; Afro-American Studies needs no support from so-called "allied" fields...
...aware of a significant amount of support in this endeavor, and would urge other Faculty members who would like grades abolished in their courses to join us in this petition. Those interested in more information should contact Arthur MacEwan, extension 4560. Also, we would like to point out that some aspects of the generally favorably CRIMSON editorial on the subject (March 5) significantly misrepresented both the nature of our course and our position on grading...
...that medicine will be thoroughly personal? If the poor are not as well treated medically as the wealthy, are they not also badly treated in every other way? If the physician makes a good income, is he not merely doing something that is praised in every other line of endeavor? Where technological ability has far exceeded the wisdom to use technology in the common interest, is it cause for wonder that medicine concentrates on the esoteric rather than the mundane? You are caught in a peculiar bind. You think that physicians should be better than other people (perhaps they should...
...Politics of Experience is the attempt of Ronald Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist, "to document some forms of our contemporary violation of ourselves." The widespread interest the book has generated since it reached the American market in September suggest that Laing succeeds in his endeavor, that many have found in it clues to their alienation...