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...Tang Clan (Gavin DeGraw, I have no idea who you are, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt). As for Wu-Tang, it’s not just that they’re artists with a powerful legacy of cultural and artistic relevance??as hip-hop’s uber-group (along with perhaps the Roots, for which Scott Storch played keyboard), they are the spring from which countless fountains of Five-Percenter slang-throwing rappers and chess-playing b-boys flow, not to mention the beginning of my own interest...
...students, lecturers, and activists ran Asian American studies with autonomy, overseeing all aspects of the program. from curriculum to faculty hiring, independently of broader university institutions. These populist origins of the Asian American studies movement meant that the guiding principle regarding curricula was that of “relevance??—of issues that addressed the needs and concerns of the represented communities at hand, thus providing a forum for group pride and preservation.The origins and execution of Asian American Studies movements have been the target of much criticism. It has been argued that the basis...
...proudly explains, “general education prepares students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society.” Indeed, such citizenship, as abstract and nebulous as laid out by the report, can claim no “utility” or “relevance?? commensurate to those positions at investment banks and consulting firms filled every year by numerous Harvard graduates...
...suppose I never did value the Core. And I’m sure not about to right now. Yet, gradually, I’ve found myself brainwashed. Not by an illusion of the Core’s relevance??certainly...
...Literature, Arts, and Ideas” will be spoiled; Foreign Cultures 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana” will likely trickle through the categorical cracks if professors do not firmly support the philosophy outlined in the Preliminary Report. “Relevance?? and “citizenship” are by no means specific in how a new Standing Committee will judge new courses for general education, but they are a start which, if passed, will be elaborated and detailed.For that reason, we hope that when the Faculty meets again on Jan. 12?...