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...Bomb could only get more scandalous if it started spawning progeny. And it has. Boston University’s Boink Magazine—or, as it calls itself, “the college guide to carnal knowledge??—released its first issue last month. Its website calls the magazine “a sex-themed publication” that involves “frank discussions about sex and nude pictures of real university students.” Its features “are necessarily explicit to accurately reflect the sexual openness of an evolving generation...
...content we read today has grown out of that context and cannot be divorced from it. A people whose history had almost been completely overlooked by scholars and has slowly struggled to find its place within educational discourse still does not warrant the “common knowledge?? stamp from many people today...
...League types—that’s you—love the sabermetric approach. And why wouldn’t they? It’s logical, quantitative and most importantly, it’s open to everyone. No playing experience—or specific baseball knowledge??necessary...
...same process introduced the very notion of a core curriculum to American academia. And the last time University dons gathered to rethink Harvard’s pedagogical orientation—in the 1970s—the College adopted its commitment to teaching “approaches to knowledge?? in the Core and beyond. But the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report, which contains initial recommendations, is nothing spectacular. Instead of the kinds of sweeping reforms of years past, the College got a laundry list of generally unoriginal ideas poached from other schools mixed with an unconvincing...
...most important change recommended in the HCCR report was also the most obvious—eliminating the tiresome Core Curriculum. Instead of the current “approaches to knowledge?? plan—which has acquainted undergraduates more with rote memorization than critical thinking—the report recommends moving to less restrictive distribution requirements, allowing more departmental courses to count for general education credit. New classes known as Harvard College Courses would also “expand the horizons of both faculty and students” and “introduce bodies of knowledge, concepts and major...