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Despite the flaws in execution, this book’s intent is something that academia needs. Intelligence may be something of a cult, but stupidity only receives cursory treatment. IQ tests, Mensa societies and SAT scores all measure intelligence, but stupidity remains the butt of crude humour and careless thought. Precisely because the state of being dumb has no analogue to being smart, Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid provides valuable insight into a subject that eludes, but intrigues...
...incident is just part of a long history of the College’s abdication of responsibility for the welfare of its female students. From its silence on final clubs to its continued female faculty under-representation, the College has not proven that it has any interest in or intent to take up Radcliffe’s former charges as equally precious and protectable members of the Harvard community. Instead, the College prefers procedural equality which ignores the substantive challenges women face on this campus—sexual assault being...
...midst of all this, why should a quiet, tree-sprinkled enclave up Garden Street, most famous beyond Harvard for its collection of historical women’s papers, matter to students concerned about diversity Harvard? How is Radcliffe relevant anymore to students intent on a living wage, a Latino Studies department or a minority dean for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Intent on sharing what he has discovered, Gollob drives every Wednesday morning to Caldwell College, a small Catholic school in Montclair, N.J., to teach, gratis, a course for students he describes as "50 years old and better--retired doctors, lawyers, teachers, housewives...
...people had originally stated their intent to stand for the post of vice-president. Candidates often defer to other people whom they feel would be able to do a better job,” Smith said...