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...reduced emphasis on history and literature in favor of two courses in “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” and “The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives?? is the most egregious sin of the new curriculum. At a time when pre-professionalism and strict functionalism are omnipresent, instruction in areas where an immediate real world link cannot always be found must be preserved and enhanced. History, literature, and the arts must be taught for their own sake, not because they make us “global citizens” or prepare...
...again, this curriculum sorely needs to be shifted away from its heavy emphasis on the contemporary and practical to provide a broader, more fulfilling set of divisions. Now, if we just added a few more literature and arts courses, changed back “United States: Historical and Global Perspectives?? and “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” to “Historical Studies,” and renamed “The Ethical Life” to something a little less preachy sounding, say, “Moral Reasoning?...
...Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 praised the proposal. “It’s a fantastic thing that they’ve done,” said Cutler. “They’ve gotten three people from different perspectives??one who developed the Clinton social security plan, one who developed the McCain one, and one who developed the Bush one. That’s an enormously valuable thing.” Under current projections from the SSA, benefit payouts will begin exceeding Social Security tax revenues...
...this page, three perspectives??from individuals in the disability rights, pro-life, and right-to-die movements—present their views of both how the society should approach both the Schiavo case and the dilemmas that the families of terminally ill patients encounter...
...female stranger posing five feet away. To be precise, I can think of two things more intimidating: first, doing so without knowing how to draw so much as a stick figure; second, discovering that the model in question likes to examine the finished products for “different perspectives?? on her body...