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Rafael-Sanchez' refusal comes on the heels of demands from the Coalition for Diversity for the University to tenure a Latino scholar...
...recent comments made by Dr. Khallid Muhammed, an Afrocentrist scholar invited by the Afro-American Cultural Center of February 27, and Mansfield were both inflammatory and divisive--with this I have no argument. Unfortunately, I felt reactions to their comments were as narrow-minded as the comments themselves. As a frequent resident of the Undergraduate Council office, I have listened to several members (including a March 10 editorial in The Crimson) relate what must be a common sentiment: speakers who promote racial bigotry must be censured because they ignore the sensitivities of race relations...
Last month's death of a Chinese scholar visiting at the Harvard Institute for International Development was the result of drowning, a spokesperson for Suffolk Country Medical Examiner Dr. Leonard Apkins said Thursday...
Contemporary English fiction is becoming incestuous. The intricate, clever construction of Black Dogs calls to mind works like Martin Amis' Time's Arrow, which is written backwards. The form of the novel clearly betrays the influence of Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, in which a literary scholar hides from the failure of his marriage in his obsession with Flaubert. Amis, Barnes and McEwan are close friends. The three friends inspire and rival one another. The form of Black Dogs echoes the smart, complex, but often self-conscious tone of McEwan's literary circle...
...scholarship and the pursuit of truth were valued above the feel-good campus politics of militant minorities. If white males are the leading thinkers in a field--as they are in almost every real academic discipline--we should read their work, and not the token work of some sloppy scholar who just happens to be a woman, a Black or a Latino (or all of the above...