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...yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, professors had their first chance to discuss publicly the preliminary report of the Committee on General Education, released in early October. Many used the meeting as a forum to challenge both the report??s specific recommendations and its underlying vision...
...Preliminary Report on General Education will meet its critics today as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gathers to discuss the recommendations for the first time. “It’s hard to know what to expect on Tuesday,” Alison Simmons, one of the report??s authors and Head Tutor of philosophy department, wrote in an e-mail over the weekend. “We have talked to many colleagues, but there are many more whom we have not yet had the chance to hear from.” With Interim President Derek...
...General Education tends to veer towards anarchy instead of rigor. Yet rigor is precisely what we need. Although freedom is always a popular idea, it is not the best suited in our case. And however brilliant, our latest proposal—the Task Force’s Preliminary Report??might not be either. Both of them—just like the current Core—fail to see that as students, we come here to learn. Any desire for instruction is an acknowledgment of ignorance. We are thus not ready to make decisions about what...
...can’t stop thinking about this moment in an episode of “The Colbert Report?? I watched over the summer. But something about traditional distinctions between high culture and low culture seems to warn me against bringing up a television show—whose most substantial legacy thus far has been coining the word “truthiness”—at my first meeting with a scholar of 20th century literature and art as prominent as Suleiman...
Director Larry Charles, a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” vet, knows how to work with this style of confrontational comedy (popular on shows now from “Curb” to “The Colbert Report??), milking awkward pauses and misunderstandings for all their comedic gold. The lengths Cohen goes to in the effort to actually offend people are staggering; his Southern dinner party doesn’t end until he orders an African-American hooker sent to the plantation house of his hosts...