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These are merely two examples of a widespread lack of sensitivity toward problems faced by women. A surprisingly and disturbingly large number of people think that issues like rape and sexual harassment are not applicable to Harvard life, and that threats to women exist only in the minds of a hysterical and paranoid "they...
Still greater opportunities exist to help students learn more effectively, for this is a field to which few universities have devoted a great deal of attention. In some schools, students have not even received any thoughtful communication to inform them of what they are supposed to accomplish through their course of study. In most, faculty members do not make it a regular practice to come together and consider how they might adapt their teaching, their class assignments, and their methods of evaluation to help their students achieve the goals toward which their education is supposedly directed...
Since academic life is strongly individualistic, faculty members are understandably wary of efforts to encourage more collaboration; any hint of regimentation encounters immediate resistance. Even so, we need more opportunities to address common educational questions, for problems that do exist that cannot be resolved in any other way. For example, everyone would agree that teaching students to reason carefully and systematically is an important aim of undergraduate education. Yet a survey conducted last year revealed that, despite the popularity of the Core Program, students felt that among the more than one hundred new courses, only two or three actually helped...
...implicit idea that the Constitution is a static document. To the attorney general, the founders' specific views and opinions--rather than the broad conceptions of government and rights which they put down in the Constitution--are binding upon American society throughout the generations. If a right did not exist in the 18th century, it is unwarranted judicial activism for a court to decide that it exists now. Hence Meese denounces the application of the Bill of Rights to the states and rejects the Miranda decision...
...responded by telling me, unequivocally, that the links do not exist and that the Catholic Church's concept of "natural law" dictates otherwise. A key factor in the development of orthodox Catholic ethics since the 12th century, this concept includes a set of standards which the Church has inferred follow an ordering of nature. Thus, the Church has concluded that the expression of homosexuality, plus many forms of heterosexual sexual behavior are "intrinsically immoral...