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...Cohen has left himself plenty of room for retreat: "He never really singled Ralston out. All Cohen said was that his affair didn't automatically disqualify him." But finding a new candidate has some pitfalls for the Pentagon. "Ralston is the kind of chairman the Pentagon wants, a status quo guy. Marine General John Sheehan, who currently runs the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, is the next obvious choice. But he's something of a radical, who wants to seriously shake up the military. Now, they need to find another status quo guy. That could be tough...
...easier to identify the measures that are used to foster respect for authority and the status quo than to determine how to encourage resistance to such pressures. However, I believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on an individual level, through exposure to ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives...
...America has come a long way since the civil rights days of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, but racism now appears in subtler forms," Jones said, adding that the key to changing the status quo is to "find new ways to see each other...
...notes that, "Arguing for our old fashioned calendar, out of harmony with nearly every other peer institution in the country, we have used the benefits of the reading period as arguments for the status quo...
...other Faculty seem to agree with Gomes, favoring reform or reconsideration of reading period as an academic structure over a continuation of the status quo...