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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is considering changing the organizational structure of the Dean's office. Two major structural alternatives have come to the forefront: (1) the "Two-Dean Structure" and (2) the "Single-Faculty-Dean Structure". Without getting too caught up in the technical aspects of this debate, I should briefly explain these two structures...
...problem, however, is that National Standards is so insistent on resurrecting neglected voices that it becomes guilty of what might be called disproportionate revisionism. In a chapter on the American Revolution, for example, the guide recommends that students examine the lives of individuals who were "in the forefront of the struggle for independence." Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine are plausible candidates here. But is it unreasonable to suspect that the writer Mercy Otis Warren is mentioned in the same breath mainly because she was a woman...
...debate meant to bring issues--not half-truths and attacks--to the forefront of this race, Romney chose to use the televised forum to characterize Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) as a hypocrite...
Many council members say the controversial efforts of former council representative Anjalee C. Davis '96 last spring kept these issues at the forefront of campus debate...
Students interviewed after the debate said it shed light on the emotional issues surrounding "gangsta" rap. "It brought a lot of issues to the forefront that need to be discussed," said Alvin L. Bragg '95, former BSA president...