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Hirsch also assailed the concentration for representing a turn from "humanist individualism toward radical collectivism" in undergraduate education, according to The Brown Daily Herald...
...professors joined the debate arguing that textbooks used by the Mobile, Ala. high school system are based on secular humanist principles and reject religious views...
What Mansfield dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...
Born in a remote town in the Carpathian Mountains, Wiesel grew up with a grounding in both the Torah and humanist literature. But his faith was shaken in the spring of 1944, when the Nazis arrived and deported the Jewish population. Wiesel spent time in Auschwitz, where his mother and youngest sister were killed, and later in Buchenwald, where his father died. "The child that I was," he later wrote, "had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured...
...second-grade daughter out of class, Frost sued for false arrest and obtained a $70,000 judgment, which is now being appealed. Some Hawkins County children have been suspended for refusing to read the books. In Mobile, meanwhile, another group has brought a similar suit challenging the "secular humanist" teachings of the public schools. That case, backed by TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, a potential presidential candidate in 1988, is scheduled to go to trial this October...