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...recent comments made by Dr. Khallid Muhammed, an Afrocentrist scholar invited by the Afro-American Cultural Center of February 27, and Mansfield were both inflammatory and divisive--with this I have no argument. Unfortunately, I felt reactions to their comments were as narrow-minded as the comments themselves. As a frequent resident of the Undergraduate Council office, I have listened to several members (including a March 10 editorial in The Crimson) relate what must be a common sentiment: speakers who promote racial bigotry must be censured because they ignore the sensitivities of race relations...
...broadcasting stations -- not to cable channels, which can continue to lure young viewers with all the cartoons they want. The creation of a new category of educational fare, moreover, may simply ghettoize such programming and turn kids off. The very notion of educational TV often seems to reflect narrow, schoolmarmish notions. Live-action shows are almost automatically preferred over cartoons, and some sweetly innocent shows, like Barney and Friends, seem to win approval largely because they shelter kids from the rude real world -- a strange notion of education indeed...
Finally, adding a separate ethnic studies requirement to the Core would not solve--and could exacerbate--the problem of Harvard's already narrow, Eurocentric curriculum. Studying ethnicity alone and for its own sake could become an excuse for not diversifying the content of the rest of the courses at the University...
...were simple, well-meaning leaders would never make mistakes. The great powers did not intend to pave the way for World War II when they ignored Japanese and Italian aggression. Europe's leaders acted in what they perceived as the best interests of their states, but their perceptions were narrow and leaders took the easy short-term solution over the difficult long-term remedy...
...slickly mainstream: the subject of TV talk shows, best sellers and even an Oscar-nominated film, Lorenzo's Oil. This veritable flowering -- or plague -- of holism is almost always presented with wide-eyed enthusiasm and a hefty dose of conventional-medicine bashing. Critics of alternative healing are just as narrow-minded: these therapies are unscientific, they say, and therefore cannot work...