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According to Summers, from “a very large group of very strong students,” he made choices “at random, just assuring that there’s a range of perspectives?? in the class...
...risk of losing their funding. That academic research should be subjugated to the politically driven needs of “homeland security” is something out of a bad dream. The blatant attempt to affect hiring and tenure under the guise of promoting “diverse perspectives?? is no more than a gross perversion of an otherwise laudable goal. Taken together, these measures would replace good research with political propaganda...
Undaunted, I went out in search of any “personal and institutional perspectives?? that I could find from Ivy presidents in order to shed some light on their decision making processes...
...with one curry bowl-full of shock and two of amusement. Smith apparently wants to impose a whitewashed curricular canon on all Harvard students, no doubt in order to protect those values of “tolerance for many different ethnic and gendered perspectives?? that makes “Western society better than its alternatives...
...reality, there would be no argument about whether Locke or Hobbes belongs on a syllabus with limited space. Rather, the argument arises between those who believe a work’s merit should determine its inclusion in the curriculum and multiculturalists who clamor for representation of diverse perspectives??much like we observe in Foreign Cultures...