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...ritual of university life as football, final exams and frat parties. Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool. Even Thomas Jefferson had to contend with a group of drunken rowdies who caused a near riot at the school that he founded, the University of Virginia. Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile. Enforcing strict rules on university turf seemed...
Professor Martin offered a unique angle on The Bell Curve by tracing the evolution of racist theorization from the Hamitic myth, to Thomas Jefferson's notions of natural aristocracy, to Social Darwinism, to The Bell Curve theory. His speech raised interesting points that serve to further the debate. Whether we choose to challenge or substantiate his ideas, we do so in the spirit of academic pursuit...
After that game, nothing was going to prevent us from a trip to the Worcester Centrum. We had our moments--the Lincoln-Sudbury game for Sectional Championships was particularly nerve-wracking--but we were going all the way. We knocked off a dazed Latin Academy squad. We dispatched Bunny Jefferson and his Burke team at the Boston Garden...
...answer does not endorse his arguments. It asserts that the BSA does not regret bringing him here because he is a very educated individual who teaches at one of the nation's best colleges and that he, in his speech, used a wide variety of sources, ranging from Jefferson to the Babylonian Talmud to Home, to show that The Bell Curve is not the first book to claim the innate inferiority of the descendants of Africans...
...Jackson London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas Sancton Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: Bruce van Voorst Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly Rome: Greg Burke Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Hong Kong: William Dowell Southeast Asia: Frank Gibney Jr. Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez...