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There are many reasons to be enthusiastic about the ascension of Drew G. Faust to the presidency of Harvard, but for me, the most important feature of President-elect Faust is that she has spent her entire adult life as an active scholar. She is not a long-time administrator like Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was. Her scholarship was not mixed with public service or a Brahmin legal career. She is a dyed-in-the-wool, true blue, one-hundred-percent academic, who has spent her life creating knowledge and disseminating it through writing and teaching...
Graduate students began collecting signatures yesterday for a letter protesting the University’s decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, a leading scholar of pre-modern Japanese history. The petition, which included the names of roughly 50 undergraduate and graduate students as of last night, calls into question Mass. Hall’s commitment to pre-modern Japanese studies. The letter seeks “not only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern...
SUBPOENA POWER The government seems to be paying attention to at least one serious scholar...
...nature, had eliminated almost any treatment of religion. Then during the evangelical renaissance of the 1990s, a theologically conservative North Carolina group called the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools compiled an outline for Bible courses. The curriculums reached the attention of Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center, based in Arlington, Va., who favored teaching about religion in school but didn't think what he was looking at passed constitutional muster. He composed a document, The Bible and Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide, that accomplished two crucial things: it provided bright-line standards...
...anymore, I hope. Ram Cnaan, a social work scholar who is my colleague at the University of Pennsylvania, has documented that, in Philadelphia alone, religious congregations supply scores of different services to the city's low-income families. A conservative estimate of the replacement value of those services--what it would cost to supply them through government or for-profit firms if the congregations ceased--is a quarter-billion dollars a year...