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...deserves to be here. Whether it’s legacies—admitted for the loyalty and funds they bring to the institution—or minorities—accepted purportedly only for the color of their skin—most of these discussions are based on a harmful paradigm: the idea that we can enumerate why some students deserve their spot at Harvard, and why others don?...
...based on centuries of syncretic practice or an Arab-inspired move toward the religion's 7th century roots? How this debate plays out will dictate just what kind of a Muslim democracy the world's fourth most populous nation aims to be. "I believe we must strengthen the moderate paradigm and say that our Islam stands for tolerance, dynamism and freedom of expression," says Zuhairi Misrawi, a researcher with the Indonesian Society for Pesantren and Community Development in Jakarta. "But is that what the majority of Indonesian people want? It's becoming harder to tell...
...Eden. While it may appear inherently intellectually dissonant to work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that the Earth is at most 10,000 years old, it is a paradigm that has seemed to work in the modern University: As long as the science that the creationist produces is sound, his views are irrelevant. But in the current scientific-political climate, controversy has reared its ugly head. Though URI awarded Ross a Ph.D., some scientists have questioned whether universities should...
...admirable goal, no doubt, and one that may have served the College well before its graduating class broke a dozen students. Even so, to light on Harvard’s early years as the paradigm of student-faculty relations would be an egregious mistake. The expansion of the research university overseen by former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, may have furthered the descent of the school’s more intimate collegiate atmosphere, but the British Model showed signs of strain as early as the 18th century, when undergraduates and tutors ended their chummy camaraderie (or, perhaps, forced...
...paradigm of canons, of literary thought, of philosophical thought, and the same for art, music, and science holds the most value to students because it places our modern world in context. Twentieth century novels can only be understood as the refinement of a literary genre that reaches back to Latin novels. The conflict between intelligent design and evolution does not make sense without an understanding of how Darwin’s system is a radical departure from the Aristotelian notion in which each species is a form of perfection in itself. The government of the United States cannot be understood...