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Whether or not they choose to acknowledge it, most people know that immigrant and migrant workers are paid poorly in the U.S. What they may not know is how hard these laborers toil for their earnings. That's why Gabriel Thompson, a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., spent months undercover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

While the administration has good reason to be wary of students taking on excessive course loads, students who desire to study two subjects and who are prepared to handle the work should be allowed to do so. Objectors might reasonably point to the existence of secondary fields, but this response...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Veritas: Now Subject to Committee Approval! | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

Yet declaring a joint concentration requires an approval process that is unnecessarily difficult—art history and English as a pairing should be considered as intellectually worthwhile as English alone. The College’s approval process sends the message that studying two fields is inherently more suspect than...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Veritas: Now Subject to Committee Approval! | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

A student should be allowed to pursue two fields even if they do not form a unified thesis. The point of education is to learn, not just to write a thesis. The Freshman Dean’s Office tells first-year students that “your choice of concentration...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Veritas: Now Subject to Committee Approval! | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

Restrictions on combining certain fields with others should also be removed. For example, the art of household management, Aristotle’s version of economics, is studied as an integral part of quite a few disciplines; in fact, “all other pursuits that involve the acquisition of what...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: Veritas: Now Subject to Committee Approval! | 2/5/2010 | See Source »

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