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...Perry, chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stanford University and head of a committee instituting a new program there, says, "Since the end of the war, Stanford professors have had to water down their advanced courses to explain material they used to be able to assume students understood." David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, adds that a common intellectual experience enables students to learn more from each other. Under Gen Ed, he says, "the chance is minimal that you will be taking a course that one of your roommates is taking so you can talk about it together...
...humanities. The anthropology department, which can support only eight teachers, may lose its Ph.D. program if one more department member has to be laid off. Faced with such conditions plus increasing student demands for more career-oriented courses, universities are turning to hardsell tactics. What Harvard Sociol ogist David Riesman has described as "the war of all, against all, for student body count" has flared on campuses all over the country...
...free market works very badly in higher education," sighs Riesman. Indeed, the new selling of higher education in some ways bodes ill for education and academic integrity...
...exploit the opportunity that lies before them. The revolution in women's athletics is a full, running tide, bringing with it a sea change?not just in activities, but in attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with a kind of social cement: loyalty, brotherhood, persistence." Riesman is one of a group of scholars who believe women have had trouble rising to high...
Elliot agrees with Riesman that some freshmen men seem immature. "I could carry on a conversation but I couldn't talk to them about anything that meant anything to me. I'm used to men; I'm not used to all those little boys running around. When you find someone they usually turn out to be winners, but it's a long, hard road in between. The guys here are into this boyfriend/girlfriend, try-to-get-laid attitude, and I find this immature. There's a need for communication, too. Either they are capable of a physical relationship and incapable...