Word: syllabus
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...Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood should be on every college student’s personal syllabus. I devoured—cover to cover—it more quickly than one of my mother’s chocolate treats. And now I am passing it on to everyone I know...
...from Memorial Hall to sip on old-school beers, like Valentine and Schaeffer or the more risque “Sex on the Sidewalk.” (“A fruity concocktion,” says the menu, which has a beer list longer than the English 158 syllabus.) But even the underage should give Bukowski a try—just be sure to get there before 8 p.m. on weekends. Bite into a burnt “Buck Burger” at a retro price ($1.69; $1.10 extra for fries), and let the red pleather diner booths...
...hard to review his work without at least a twinge of defensiveness. And perhaps Wiener is correct that The Crimson blew the Thernstrom controversy out of proportion, contributing to the politicization of what was in reality a civil disagreement between a teacher and his students over a course syllabus. One chapter later, however, Wiener gets his facts flat-out wrong when he launches an unwarranted attack on Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard...
...subsequent career as an actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which included slaveowner’s journals but not slave narratives. Another African-American student, Paula Ford ’88, told Wiener that Thernstrom “said black men beat their wives...
...survey suggested that most students complete only 43 percent of their assigned reading—regardless of the length of their reading list. However, citing Social Studies 10 as an example, he explained that this number almost doubles when students understand the rationale behind the syllabus...