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...essay, Handler responded that the lack of massive protests and student takeovers of administrative buildings is merely the result of the digital revolution, which has transferred the free expression of ideas from the picket lines to the Internet...
Nicholas Handler’s prize-winning essay was written in response to an article by historian Rick Perlstein arguing that American college campuses are no longer the incubators of radical thought they were in the 1960s because of a modern-day obsession with market-centered thinking...
...York Times Magazine announced on Friday that it had chosen a Yale junior as the winner of its “Why College Matters” essay contest—beating out at least five Harvard students...
...says, “Jackie Robinson [the student] sums up all the values we hope to instill in our students—commitment to community service, academic performance, musical pursuits—he really is a prototype of our foundation scholars.” The scholarship application involved an essay about Jackie Robinson, for whom Robinson’s dad was named. “I remember writing about his struggle in the Major Leagues,” says Robinson. “I feel like I struggled a bit in high school with racial issues, and it?...
...professor of social theory at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Some more famous names, like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Orson Welles, also lent their posthumous support in a list of people who expressed their own doubts about the Bard when they were alive. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Histories...