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Thesis topics that include issues of popularculture also abound. Jennifer D. Gootman '98 issubmitting a thesis to the History Department onpsychic hotlines. Although she says she did notspecifically set out to choose a topic of popularculture, she wanted to explore something that hadnot been studied previously.
"I'm not implying, however, that we all go trotting around in dark alleys proclaiming ourselves invincible. How do we reconcile such theory and practice? I guess figuring out this dilemma is beyond the bounds of this thesis...uh, I mean column."
The dearth of quality and continuity among faculty members is another deterrent to student interest in RES. A number of students have complained to me that courses related to ethnic studies are poorly taught and that the professors lack expertise in ethnic studies. Some are taught by visiting professors, meaning...
In the waning months of the 1980s, a Sovietologist named Francis Fukuyama published a provocative essay called "The End of History?" Fukuyama's thesis--that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant people would have nothing more to fight wars about--was soon disproved. The 1990s have not been short...
At dinner in Dunster House last night, two different seniors (who will also remain anonymous) pretended to be genuinely intrigued by this columnist's thesis travails. "Tell me, what are you writing about?" "No," I thought, "I can't discuss this anymore." So, I gave the one-liner title which...