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...Unheavenly City. In it Banfield defines what he sees as the real issues that make up the urban crisis--none of which would be controversial except that he reaches the conclusion that there is no urban crisis at all, and that time can handle most problems that do exist...
Banfield today dismisses Blustein and her friends as a "bunch of kooks" who could exist anywhere, and alone did not cause him to leave Penn. But apparently he wasn't so unbudged by the college's treatment of Blustein after the award presentation incident--a suspended sentence and probation. The president of Penn, Martin Meyerson, a personal friend of Banfield's, admits that the school's light punishment of Blustein may have played a role in Banfield's departure--something Banfield himself doesn't contradict. Banfield also claims, however, that he is anxious to collaborate again with James Q. Wilson...
...Banfield, the urban problems that do exist are minor ones compared to those in the early days of American cities. Unlike liberal urban theorists, Banfield, an admitted conservative, dismisses any economic, political or racial problems of the cities, and instead focuses on the problem of cultural class--particularly the culture of the "lower class...
...such jobs exist, they're certainly getting a lot harder to find, especially in the humanities, which have been hit hardest by the tight academic market. Hesford's case is far from unusual; many graduate students now spend several years applying unsuccessfully for jobs while they try to complete their dissertations. Take, for example, the case of Thomas Kaiser, a history graduate student who has applied in the last two years to 60 places-- "everywhere from major universities like Yale and Berkeley down to some rather small schools." What's discouraging, Kaiser says, is that "the prospects have become...
...does have a couple of quasi--clubs, that is places that exist simply to push the latest names that the record companies are featuring...