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Regardless, Jackson's importance on the American political landscape is undeniable. As entire swaths of the American populace, long marginalized and ignored, began to flex their political muscles in the second half of this century, Jackson was in the thick of their struggles...
...campaign, Jackson won over three and a half million votes, and in his 1988 campaign, he surprised frontrunner Dukakis by winning the Michigan primary. He arrived at the Democratic convention with over 1,200 delegates to his name...
...building was quickly cleared, and students barricaded most doors with chains, although students were posted at a few entrances to allow sympathizers to enter. Within half an hour, James says, about 500 students had crowded into University Hall...
...University, along with the rest of American higher education, eventually has to realize that a professor's quality can't be measured in published pages alone. Harvard's tenure system must reward truly good teachers, not just pay lip service to the second half of their standard of "leading scholar/teacher available in the field." The University's goal should be to create a diverse Faculty of competent teachers and scholars. Until they do, it is undergraduate education that will continue to pay the price...
...thought to myself], I was just in Vietnam ayear and a half ago, and here I am over hereserving the city now as I served the governmentthen, and people here were against it," he says...