Word: social
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...Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell speaking at an open forum about minority and women faculty hiring (12/8/88...
WHEN I was applying to colleges, I was drawn to Harvard's reputation of well-roundedness, its supposed strength in both the humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences. Yale was too fuzzy, MIT too techie. Only Harvard stood as the Renaissance man of schools...
...students turning away from the sciences? Some of the reasons might be the exaggeration of the departments' difficulty. The sciences may arguably be more taxing than the humanities and social sciences--they are more sequential, and most entail weekly labs. But popular opinion widens the gap (if there is one) between the difficulty of the sciences and non-sciences. Students may think they could not fare well in the sciences when indeed they could...
...current crop of U.S. undergraduates, who were just toddlers in the late '60s and early '70s, grew up during a time when the social gains of those years were under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance...
...come next summer when Congress and the Administration decide how to meet the $100 billion Gramm-Rudman deficit ceiling. After an extended bout of recrimination and finger pointing, both sides will have to agree to raise taxes or cut some $30 billion to $40 billion from cherished defense and social programs. "It's fairly likely that a modest increase in the gasoline tax will be included" in whatever package emerges, says California's Beilenson. "You've got to have something that's wrapped up with a solution for a bigger problem to provide political cover." If that cover proves secure...