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...potential trouble areas,” The Crimson pigeonholed these Asian countries into the realm of the unfamiliar and dangerous, volatile entities exiled by their vulnerability to the pull of communism. This tag validates these nations as objects of interest and simultaneously denies them their rich cultural history in favor of shoving them under the heading of potential “bad guys...
...academia—and one that famously tanked one of her predecessors—Faust took courageous and well-reasoned stands on important issues. On her second day in office, she denounced a British boycott of Israeli academics. In March, she testified in front of the U.S. Senate in favor of increasing the funding of the National Institutes of Health. And just yesterday, at the Reserve Office Training Core commissioning ceremony, she leveled much-needed criticism against the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although...
This was just one of many distractions plaguing Faculty action. Despite having several important items on the agenda, they chose to cancel January’s faculty meeting, an apparent annual tradition that nevertheless set back progress in favor of extra long vacations for professors. Fortunately, at the February meeting, the Faculty managed to address several of these issues. At that meeting, the Faculty voted to require that all courses allow Q Guide evaluations—a valuable reform that will ensure that students have at least some information on the quality of the courses they are considering during shopping...
Despite these shortcomings, the central administration has excelled in one notable area this year: financial aid. Most remarkable was the December expansion of financial aid, which eliminated loan-based aid in favor of grants, stopped including home equity in loan calculations, and guaranteed that families making from $120,000 to $180,000 would pay only 10 percent of their income to send a child to college. This program will benefit students as well as the university as a whole, allowing it to recruit and admit students that would be otherwise unable to attend. The trend toward expansion of financial...
...Feminism is a kind of liberalism, and liberalism has an inherent dilemma regarding diversity. With its respect for liberty, liberalism promotes diversity of opinion, believing with John Stuart Mill that opposition to your view keeps you awake and does you a favor. But liberalism also believes in progress through liberation from prejudice such as found, allegedly, in sexism. From this aspect liberalism sees no reason to answer challenges from reactionaries and to refight battles already won. In the spirit of progress feminism feels justified in dismissing its critics—which is another reason for refusing to argue with them...