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...explains why the recommendations offered by the Texas Board of Education to textbook publishers have inflamed debate over the integrity of our nation’s curriculum. Divisive terms such as "brainwashing," "conservative," and "partisan" color the controversy as each side derides the other for skewing history for political gain. The question of whether the Board’s actions are justified has been opined upon to no end. But such haranguing distracts from a larger issue at hand; the controversy should force Americans to reevaluate their entire sense of history and cast a more critical eye on the interpretation...
...complacency of our interpretative mindset fails to advance the inquiry into what got us where we are today. In order to gain a better sense of ourselves we must synthesize different perspectives to formulate a more conscientious analysis of who we are as Americans. If we can do this in the midst of this hostile debate, then Americans can perhaps finally prove Hofstadter’s interpretation delightfully false...
While students at Harvard have a long way until their fifties, exercise has its benefits now. After all, even college students can attest to unwanted weight gain. Freshman fifteen, anyone? With classes, extra-curriculars, and jobs, it can be difficult to squeeze another hour into our already over-crowded schedules...
HUCTW ratified its first contract with Harvard in 1989 after a protracted struggle to gain recognition from the University...
Though Jeff—the student who had to withdraw after failing two courses—agrees that his removal from campus gave him the chance to gain fresh perspectives, he nevertheless says that required withdrawal is a “fundamentally stupid” process...