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Porter University Professor Helen Vendler addressed an audience of about 130 students and professors yesterday, advocating a more prominent role for literature and the arts in American education...
Porter University Professor Helen Vendler drew applause when she said that Sandel’s suggested areas omit important areas of study—particularly a “foreign cultures” requirement...
...would send a Harvard graduate out into the world with more international understanding and less quantitative reasoning, if I had the choice,” Vendler said...
Some faculty members are concerned that we are not learning to think, that, in the words of Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, “Our students need to be taught the very process of introspection, a process lost amid the external pressures of career success.” Professor Vendler proposes that each student develop a list each year of books to read for pleasure, in order to develop a life-long excitement about reading and thought. The idea is well-meant, but seems quaint, considering the present reading overload to which we are subjected. Vendler worries that Harvard...
...mail is convenient and can be an effective way of arranging meetings, but it cannot supplant face-to-face contact between students and staff,” Casey N. Cep, a past and current student of Vendler, wrote in an e-mail. “I have had wonderful interactions with Professor Vendler during her office hours—meetings that were no less enjoyable for having been arranged without e-mail...