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...means to be a human being,” which some professors at yesterday’s Faculty meeting criticized as a “grab bag” category.Students could fulfill this requirement with a course in areas as varied as evolutionary biology or literature, according to a letter the Task Force on General Education sent last week to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.While the new “what it means to be a human being” requirement was debated at length at the Faculty meeting, the “Reason and Faith” requirement?...
...Faculty’s challenge, if and when the proposed curriculum is implemented, will be to recast the generation-old and much-maligned Core into a system with a radically different mission but an uncannily similar structure and nomenclature. The task force that crafted the proposal distributed a letter before yesterday’s Faculty meeting saying it was eliminating “Reason and Faith,” the most novel component of their preliminary plan for general education released in October. It boldfaced the words “moral reasoning” in a two-line description...
...freedom to exercise their faith and religion. For people to be deprived of that freedom in Muslim countries is blatantly immoral. James E. Ruark Kentwood, Michigan, U.S. I liked very much the dualing viewpoints by Richard John Neuhaus and Tariq Ramadan [Nov. 27.]. Neuhaus noted that, in a letter to the Pope, 38 Islamic authorities explained that that "jihad ? means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." Instead of trying to teach Westerners how to approach Islam, perhaps Islamic authorities should formulate a statement against violence...
...letter sent to the Faculty and discussed at today’s meeting, the eight-member task force wrote: “We have removed ‘reason and faith’ as a distinct category, feeling that courses dealing with religion—both those examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories...
University letters to students and alumni are usually cheerful. But the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) [ucla.org] is now composing 800,000 embarrassing ones. The university announced Tuesday that it's notifying nearly a million members of its community - including students, faculty and alumni - that a hacker gained access to their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information. UCLA computer security technicians noticed a suspicious number of database queries on Nov. 21, and after a quick investigation, discovered that a hacker had accessed records fraudulently all the way back to October...