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...this week, the ad hoe Committee on Gifts to the Kennedy School of Government released a draft statement on a proposed policy to do just that -- to review gifts and names of faculties for the school...
...recently read with considerable dismay Joe Dalton's review of Peter Gent's book, Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, in the March 23 Crimson. Although I have not read Gent's book and thus have no comment about Dalton's treatment of it, there are enough gratuitous salvos against my home state of Texas in the course of the review to merit this response...
...opening third of the review is devoted to a rather self-indulgent and inexplicable diatribe against Texas. I do not know the source of the author's resentment, nor the extent of his knowledge about the state, its people or its culture. But his comments inflict on readers a well-worn stereotype that bears little resemblance to the complex reality of Texas. If Gent's book really is "more a novel of Texas society" than something else, there is, of course, more to Texas than Texas society, or "po' boys at play in the fields (and beds) of the energy...
...take the time to make the case for Texas, first, because the author surely knows there is more to Texas than the highlights of his review, and second, because to do so would dignify the review beyond reason. Dalton is surely correct when he implies his dissatisfaction with the increasing division of our country into self-interested fragments. That is just as surely the reason that this review's regional bigotry damns itself. I can only hope that he is not also provided access to a nuclear weapon at any time in the near future. Austin is simply too nice...
RISD president Lee Hall was unavailable for comment last night. Until this time RISD faculty have held no contracts. The new tenure program will allow for one-, three-and five-year contracts, with the possibility of permanent appointment after the five-year period, subject to peer review and administrative approval...