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...DAVID RIESMAN, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, is quoted as espousing a "backlash" theory to explain Klemesrud's somewhat shaky observation that women are once again heading for the clothes racks in search of sexy duds. Riesman, in a recent interview with The Crimson, explained his "theory" was formed spontaneously when Klemesrud told him that women were once again becoming sex objects. He referred mainly to one of the more sensitive and critical problems with the women's movement. Primarily, Riesman says that some "women have felt pushed around, made to feel square," by radical feminists who were trying...
Similar pressures today generally take a financial form as colleges fold at an alarming rate. Riesman says financially weak schools often feel the need to differentiate themselves, if only slightly, from other schools in order to attract students. But change is risky because a school making the wrong choice may lose students and have to close. "If you get empty buildings, you wind up as a Holiday Inn," says Howard Solomon, dean of undergraduate studies and academic affairs at Tufts...
...education in mind. It's a movement that extends from good intentions to some very conservative ideas." Nevertheless, with high schools providing increasingly uneven preparation, college faculties are realizing they must teach students "with the short attention span of television instead of the long attention span of Tolstoy," says Riesman...
...Riesman says students play a greater role than they realize in determining the fate of their curriculums. "Students vote with their feet and with their attention," he explains. Because professors dislike teaching semi-captive audiences trying merely to fulfill requirements, they try to design courses that attract eager and interested students...
...sometimes they tend to feel bitter about what they see as Harvard's undeserved limelight. Nevertheless, phone calls continue to pour into University Hall requesting information on the Core. Schools as unlike Harvard as the University of Tampa and the University of Puget Sound are considering core curriculums. As Riesman notes, "The affluent started out wearing blue jeans, and now it has caught up with the blue collar." Ah, the vicissitudes of fashion...