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...point is not to push for a specific academic reform, but to remind the University that structural reforms to undergraduate education are not ends in themselves. Hiring more Faculty may lead to smaller class sizes, but smaller class sizes won’t mean anything unless they can significantly affect undergraduate attitudes for the better. The freshman seminar program is valuable not because the classes are small, but because it is a rare opportunity for first-years to develop and discover academic interests, free from grade or exam worries...
...Democrats learn their way around an unfamiliar seat of power, GOP party strategists are quick brush aside any suggestion of Democratic dominance. This is hardly a situation, they remind anyone who will listen, that allows any party to assume a position of true supremacy. But the unintended consequence of all this is that the the Democratic majority gives the Republicans a foil and perhaps a campagin issue in 2002. You can imagine Bush campaigning against the Do-Nothing Democratic congress...
...says legal analysts such as Van Susteren remind the public that they have rights under the law. They also help to explain a legal system to the general public that at times that seems virtually incomprehensible...
...tradition that situates us and prevents us from getting lost in the maze of modern cynicism and apathy. On the walls of the Barker Center, of Annenberg and of most of the dining halls hang the faces of those men, and few women, who are our collective ancestors, who remind us that we have a duty to put our education from this august institution to good use. While many schools have abandoned requirements that students read the seminal works of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and other dead white males, Harvard requires one Shakespeare course and two pre-18th century classes...
...pill-taking regimen. The gay press is filled with delightful ads for HIV medications that depict healthy, happy-looking guys who seem too busy racing the Iditarod to be sick. Last month the fda actually had to order drugmakers to tone down the upbeat ads for HIV drugs--and remind readers that, oh, yeah, HIV is lethal...