Word: putnams
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...submitted today by 5 p.m., and while minds can always change before the add-drop deadline, most students will make their final scheduling decisions today. However, there is one class which students may still want to shop before setting anything in stone. The renowned Cogan University Professor Hilary Putnam will be retiring after this semester, but not before taking one last curtain call with his former student, Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West...
...Putnam says volunteering can sometimes act as too much of a band-aid for deeper social problems...
...Skocpol, as well as Putnam, suggest politics is one important avenue for solving these problems...
...Putnam also compared today's lack of participation in civic institutions to a similar situation a century ago, when most of today's institutions were founded...
...Most the founders of those organizations were just young people who got engaged in the problems of society and realized that the old ways weren't going to work, and they needed new ways," Putnam said...