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...Indian College” makes you think of stuffy Puritans brandishing Bibles and spreading smallpox to the native population, you’re only half right. Founded in 1655, the Indian College educated English and native students side by side as part of an effort to teach English and Protestantism to local tribes. Unfortunately, seventeenth-century graduation rates weren’t what they are today; of the five attendees, one dropped out, two died of disease, and one was murdered. The only graduate died of tuberculosis shortly after receiving his degree. For Tiffany L. Smalley...
...Steve Miles, a medical ethicist and the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror, says it may not be necessary to teach every medical student the specifics of torture. Rather, there's a more general skill all doctors need: push back--the ability to say no, whether it's to a commander who wants a prisoner tortured or an HMO that wants the potential benefits of an expensive treatment concealed. "Every doctor is going to wind up in a dual-loyalty situation," Miles says. The answer is to remember that a doctor's first objective...
...late.”PERSONAL EXPOSITIONAlthough she must await reviews of her latest endeavor, Evans is no stranger to success.She has been honored with a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, and the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing.Currently, Evans teaches introductory courses in playwriting and screenwriting at Harvard, and will teach advanced courses in each this spring.Although she did not begin writing plays until after receiving her bachelor’s degree in English, Evans felt pulled toward writing early in life.“In a way, most writers...
...ignorant rhetoric with a response, but I fear the profound implications that can and often do materialize from the repeated misconceptions heralded by Horowitz’s brand of “awareness.” Sadly, such a notion of “enlightenment” seeks to teach the academic left lessons such as, “There is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists.” As Sa’ed Atshan, a Palestinian citizen and head teaching fellow for Government 1206, “Contemporary Political Islam...
...Horowitz’s attempt to “enlighten” the academic left, The “Student’s Guide to Organizing Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” recommends both a “Teach-In on ‘The Oppression of Women in Islam’” and “sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments and campus Women’s Centers.” This is completely ill-informed: Feminist scholars have been among the foremost analysts and critics of women’s systematic mistreatment...