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...preview of the tone of Bush's war speech, a top aide pointed to a statement last week by Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, who said as he was sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "This moment in history is one where we have an enemy whose stated public intent is to destroy our way of life; 2.4 million American men and women in uniform say, 'Not on our watch.' '' The question gnawing at White House officials is whether they can do anything more to convince everyday Americans, bombarded with discouraging news from 6,000 miles...
...courses for each undergrad to five. The College could encourage professors to devise pilot courses now, with the ideals of the new curriculum in mind, and test them out as Cores. The College could even put an interim distribution requirement in place to encourage current students to get their Gen Ed directly from departments’ introductory courses, and perhaps offer separate sections for concentrators and non-concentrators, and even different assignments for different credit. With some flexibility, we could see some benefit from the Review today, instead of years down the line...
...this impending compromise between methods and values, the outlines of which have already begun to take shape, it is crucially important that we remember why we study the West. While Maier believes that Western values should no longer be privileged in the way they were during Harvards pre-Core, Gen Ed days, he also adds that, from one perspective, Western values should be deprivileged because of their worldwide diffusion. From this point of view, studying the West is really about understanding the basis of a global culture that many feel is emerging. The West won, and so a firm grounding...
Studying the West in an appropriate way means recognizing the central role that Western thought plays right now, in whatever way one chooses to acknowledge it, and then seeking to discover the origins of that thought. Harvards World War II-era Gen Ed curriculum put Western thought on a pedestal. And the Core tried its best to make Western thought non-essential to graduation (even as most departments ensured their students would be firmly grounded in it). Going forward, the Committee on General Education must simply accord the West the same treatment it gives other subjects. Dont privilege...
Perhaps therein also lies the answer to why Jack's ratings in many cities dip after its first two months. It soon dawns on the Gen Xers that their cool, eclectic music collection is actually the new American songbook, just as their snarky cynicism is the generic spawn of David Letterman. Worse yet, the big news being hidden behind Jack's robotic wall of attitude is this: Jack is the new oldies. Therefore, we all must be getting...