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...review proposals were released last Monday, calling for needed changes such as abolishing the Core curriculum, further emphasizing the sciences, and encouraging (or perhaps, even requiring) an international experience abroad. Many of the recommendations were expected, if not decades in the making; students have complained about several of the salient issues for years now. We support the curricular review’s general mission to counter a general trend towards specialization through relaxing requirements and broadening the benefits of a liberal arts education—the ability to reason in a variety of academic disciplines. Nevertheless, we question how well...
...tense moment arose when Jade F. Jurdi ’07, a member of the Society of Arab Students, asked Pappin about an article on Arab culture published by the Salient. Jurdi later described the article as “so insulting and so trivializing of our culture...
...panel discussion on “Ethnic and Race Relations in America” included student members from the Harvard Democrats, the Harvard Republican Club, the Salient, Native Americans at Harvard College and Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, as well as Institute of Politics fellow Gary L. Flowers...
Gladden J. Pappin ’04, editor emeritus of the Salient and a panel member, noted that people of different ethnicities are often tied to a certain socioeconomic background. He said he worried about “too much coming out of the government table,” questioning the role that government should play in lessening these differences...
Pappin, who could not remember the article to which Jurdi referred, defended the intentions of those on the Salient, and the forum eventually continued...