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Even with the addition of Scanlon, there will be only nine tenured professors in the department, below a high of 13 in the late 1960s, said Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb who was appointed two years...
...Discipline was routinely enforced by flogging, beating with clubs, inserting of needles under fingernails, crushing of testicles with pliers, and the last word in torture devices: the 'Tucker telephone,' an instrument used to send an electric current through genitals." In Jail: The Ultimate Ghetto, Ronald Goldfarb records so many atrocities of prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that...
Usually less than half of the concentrators write honors theses. Perhaps part of the reason is that Faculty members in the department actively discourage students from writing theses unless they are extremely enthusiastic and possess cogent proposals for their very specific topic. Goldfarb explains that Faculty members expect Philosophy theses to be especially probing--like the concentration itself...
...technical. "It was mathematics, not humanities. We just learned to work with mathematical systems and equations," James L. Matory '82, who switched from Philosophy to Social Anthropology after one semester, says. Although he readily admits that students experienced in math tend to do better in the course, Goldfarb explains that the material is not inaccessible to those who approach the course with an open mind: "The goal of the course is to introduce many studnets to a new form of thinking," he says...
...Last year's Senior Tutor Thomas Ricketts said last fall that many concentrators experience a prolonged period of frustration and confusion concerning their studies in the department, but he added that most manage to sort out their problems and questions by senior year. A sizeable minority leave the concentration, Goldfarb says, although a larger number of sophomores and juniors enter as well...