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...changing. The Spanish government has invested some €200 million in campaigns to promote tolerance, including screening educational films at stadiums and requiring guides against racism to be distributed. Last year, the government's Superior Council for Sports (csd) worked with soccer leagues on a program to teach racial sensitivity to both players and fans, established the Observatory to monitor xenophobic incidents, and outlined penalties for racist behavior. Last month uefa and Football Against Racism in Europe (fare) - an organization devoted to countering racism and xenophobia in football across Europe - organized a conference at the Nou Camp to raise awareness...
...growing number of scholars are probing the aesthetic, societal and philosophical properties of smut in academic departments ranging from literature to film, law to technology, anthropology to women's studies. Those specialists argue that graphic sexual imagery has become ubiquitous in society, so it's almost irresponsible not to teach young people how to deal with it. "I was amazed by how much the students knew about pornography but how little they knew how to think about it," says Jay Clarkson, a graduate student in communications who introduced the University of Iowa's Pornography in Popular Culture class last fall...
Linda Williams, a film professor at Berkeley, lines up on the side of showing rather than simply telling. While researching feminist reactions to porn in the early '90s, she grew fascinated by the choreography of dirty movies and began teaching a trailblazing course about porno films. "I'm quite critical of pornography," she says. "I'm not trying to teach people to accept the existence of it. As with any tradition of moving-image culture, we need to take it seriously. We need to try and come at it with some theoretical tools." Like many porn scholars, Williams includes readings...
...vaccine research, and to a lesser extent from public education. In the speech, Summers made reference to Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom’s pioneering efforts in the study of immunology in India. Twenty-five years ago, Summers said, Bloom traveled to India to teach the country’s first immunology course to a modest 28 students. In 1996, that number had grown to more than 3000 registered immunologists in the country, according to Summers. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...meant to give overall meaning and purpose to the students’ college experience.The moral reasoning requirement, though, was not meant to be a grand exercise in making life in the Yard meaningful.Instead, according to a 1978 core curriculum report, the original intent of the requirement was to teach students that it is possible to think systematically about issues like justice, personal responsibility, and friendship. In Phyllis Keller’s book “Getting to the Core,” then-University President Derek C. Bok, addressing an audience of professional school faculty in 1976, said that whether...