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Using race is "no more rational on its own terms than would be choices based upon the physical size or blood type of applicants," reads the opinion in Hopwood vs. Texas, a challenge to Supreme Court Justice Powell's 1978 opinion in Bakke that diversity is beneficial.
A defender of the status quo many say: "Of course we should encourage students to develop these skills and habits. But the Core already does that! For if all kinds of rational inquiry depend on them, then students automatically acquire them by focusing on specific modes of inquiry." This argument...
...most important changes proposed herein would not be in the administrative structure or the Core requirements. They would be in the goals and rationale of the Core. The Core now seeks to acquaint students with the norms and practices of a (somewhat arbitrarily) selected set of academic disciplines. I have argued that Core courses in the arts should seek to develop sensibilities to language, color, design or music in the context of outstanding exemplars; that Core courses outside the arts should seek to cultivate the intellectual skills and habits that underlie all kinds of rational inquiry, in substantive contexts that...
"This agreement is a product of a number of different players including representatives of the administration," Spector said. "We feel like we have constructed a rational and workable solution that will serve the interests of all parties concerned."
Students ought to be able to plan a schedule allotting enough time to complete their papers and their studying in the two weeks given to them in Reading Period, right? Well, not really. It is not that we are irrational. Rather, we are just so busy with the ordinary business...