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Maybe we can hope that the still-unrepentant Dean Paul McLoughlin, author of the present debacle, might someday learn this lesson. Our new president, or deans she appoints, might insist that he learn it–that he consult students before an important decision, not after. If not, it’s our responsibility as students and then as alumni to articulate this lesson until we have a Dean of Student Activities who does...
...What makes a 20, 21, 22-year-old kid like me and like you—what makes them not only volunteer but insist on being sent on a mission of this sort? It was because of leadership by example...
...will drastically improve the academic lives of students who will not be able to reap the full benefits of the new general education curriculum.Petersen and Sundquist have two of these issues on their calendar. The UC should not, however, wait so long to get started, nor should its leaders insist on this restrictive one-issue-at-a-time approach. Unlike Crimson Reading and the teaching hotline, all three of these reforms hinge on faculty and administration approval. Given their limited power in the decisions, it is unrealistic to hope the UC will neatly accomplish one goal per month...
...current proposal, which could face an initial faculty vote as early as next month, “historical illiteracy will be allowed, even if clearly frowned upon,” Gordon said in prepared comments for this past Tuesday’s Faculty meeting.Meanwhile, proponents of the new plan insist it would actually give departments more sway in how general education courses are chosen, and say that more departmental courses would count for general education credit.Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, who co-chaired the task force that drafted the proposal, also said that the strength of the new curriculum would...
...Will North Korea eventually give up those facilities as the U.S. and others insist? To answer that, we need to ask why the North developed and secured nuclear weapons, over several decades, at such a high cost and risk. There are a number of reasons. First, nuclear status is a political trophy for Kim Jong Il. From senior party members down to young children, North Koreans have boasted to recent visitors that Kim's great feat of testing a nuclear bomb last October has enabled their country to stand as an equal with the big powers. Second, the nuclear program...